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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk (on a Monday) - Lucy Campbell the Story CrossFit Needed? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:29
  what's going on everybody
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  welcome to monday monday
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  monday night crossfit talk
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  yeah we uh we moved our
• 0:39
  date from sunday to monday
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  uh because we didn't know
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  how long water palooza was
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  gonna go yesterday and with
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  the afc championship game
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  going on last night we
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  thought why compete with
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  football um and just yeah
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  and then let carolyn get
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  depressed that her bills
• 0:58
  are out of it now
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  Let's go Eagles.
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  Anybody but the chiefs.
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  I actually don't mind the chiefs.
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  I just would like to see Saquon win one.
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  I think that that's a good story.
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  He seems like a very good teammate.
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  Um,
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  to have the season he had to
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  not even play like at the
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  end to break the record,
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  to just be happy for his teammates,
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  the way he celebrated his one,
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  the one guy's first touchdown.
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  Like he just seems like a good guy.
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  So happy for him to make it to the finals.
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  Yeah.
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  He's a,
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  he's a former Penn state Nittany lion.
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  I, I loved him at Penn state.
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  Like,
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  Loved, loved him.
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  And there was talk that he
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  was going to be a Chicago
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  bear in the off season,
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  but it didn't come to fruition.
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  So, yeah, but I had, if he wins,
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  I will not be sad, but I'm just, I,
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  we saw this two years ago.
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  I just wanted something different.
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  Right.
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  Agree.
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  That's all.
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  I don't have anything
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  against anybody playing.
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  I just, I've seen it before.
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  Ready for something.
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  It is the finals from two years ago.
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  Yep.
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  And I was going for Jason
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  Kelsey at that point.
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  I wanted him to finish on a win there,
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  but yeah.
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  You are the biggest
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  flip-flopping football fan.
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  I'm going for people.
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  Niners, Bills, now Eagles.
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  I'm going for people.
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  Yeah, it's okay.
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  I'm Canadian.
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  We don't have a team.
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  I get to do what I want.
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  I get to do what I want.
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  I like the stories.
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  You're not a Saskatchewan Roughrider fan?
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  No, I'm actually a Montreal Alouettes.
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  Okay.
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  That's not even close to where you live.
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  No, that's my background.
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  My parents are from Montreal,
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  so I grew up a Montreal fan
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  for everything, like Montreal Expos.
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  I guess I should be a Washington fan,
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  but since they acquired the Expos,
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  but yeah.
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  Yeah, the logo's making a comeback.
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  I love that.
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  Lots of people wearing the
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  shirts of the Expos.
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  I love that I never
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  understood it but I thought
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  it was cool yeah it's nice
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  can you explain what it
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  means like I don't even
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  know okay I don't have I
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  don't have the background
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  knowledge of it I just
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  think it's cool I like the
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  colors of it too yeah yeah so well cool
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  Well, I was just updating the ladies.
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  I, we got my wife upstairs.
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  Uh, she showered,
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  she's sleeping in her own bed.
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  She slept in yesterday till noon.
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  Whoa.
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  Just cause having a bed in
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  the living room is not ideal, right?
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  Light coming in everywhere,
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  dog needing help.
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  Just not conducive to sleep.
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  Have you been sleeping there as well?
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  no no I have been sleeping
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  upstairs with my phone
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  ringer on that if she needs
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  me gotcha I can get there
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  um jay birch says I agree
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  carolyn there are more
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  known texans on casey than
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  the eagles that I'm aware
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  of I just wish kellen moore
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  could have done the same
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  thing with the cowboys um
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  josh allen though too
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  though gosh that guy I feel
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  for I like that's like the
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  story of my life he's like
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  just in the wrong era you
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  know he's just in in the
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  wrong division against the wrong
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  quarterback all the time and
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  coach I mean Andy Reid is
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  good but like if he was in
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  another division and he
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  wouldn't have to play
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  against like Patrick
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  Mahomes every year then who
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  knows what kind of career
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  he could have had like at
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  least going to the Super
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  Bowl a few times maybe on
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  another team I don't know but
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  Guy's so good.
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  They had it.
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  It was theirs.
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  I mean, yeah,
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  you have just above two minutes left.
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  You have three timeouts, balls in his hand,
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  and he didn't get it done.
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  Can't ask for more.
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  He's still so good.
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  I wish they could have pulled it off.
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  You got anything going on, Jamie?
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  Nope.
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  Nothing.
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  After the gym remodel,
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  you're just... That's like
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  nowhere near being done.
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  We were at the gym for a
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  while on Sunday doing a few more things,
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  so we got to put in one more order,
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  finish up the rest of the rig,
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  and so we're just kind of
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  trying to nail that down
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  exactly what my final order needs to be.
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  Awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  Well...
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  Hit qualifiers too.
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  We've got the Fresh Coast qualifiers due.
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  They were due today.
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  So that's what I did on Sunday.
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  Two workouts.
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  Was it one weekend of work
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  of qualifiers or is it two
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  different weekends of two workouts or?
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  No, it was,
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  they were all released and I
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  don't really know when they
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  were released.
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  I just,
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  we just sort of decided to do them
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  like Monday or Tuesday.
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  Gotcha.
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  Um, so I think I did two, one on Tuesday,
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  two on Thursday, um,
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  And then I did two again on Sunday.
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  I redid the one.
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  Isn't Fresh Coast like three events?
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  Yeah, it's usually three or four.
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  So you're doing more
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  qualifier events than the actual events?
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  I know.
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  I'm doing the NorCal ones right now.
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  Yeah, I was looking at doing those, too,
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  and I just, with having to do these, like,
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  I now would have to do, like,
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  all five of those this week.
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  Yeah, I mean, I started them last week,
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  even though they were released way,
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  way before.
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  I still have one more two-parter to do.
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  I thought about doing that handstand hold.
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  That's the one I have to do
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  tomorrow or Wednesday.
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  I was going to do that one, too.
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  And then see.
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  I don't have an assault bike.
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  I have one at school because
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  it's assault bike or echo.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't have an assault bike at my gym.
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  We sold all those.
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  We only have echoes.
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  And then the assault bike I
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  have at my school,
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  they went and added like a, I don't know,
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  I think it finishes with a
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  hundred and fifty foot of overhead.
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  And I don't have a thirty
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  five pound plate at my school.
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  So I'm like, and the, the, the spacing,
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  I don't really have like a
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  twenty five foot where I
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  could actually put my
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  camera and had everything in there.
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  Yeah.
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  Because if I'm just doing it by myself,
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  like during, like, let's say my,
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  my spare or something,
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  then I can't do that at school.
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  But yeah,
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  the assault bike thing is
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  annoying because I want to
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  use the assault bike.
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  Yeah.
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  Over the Echo.
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  It's just so silly.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, it helps more people do them,
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  but there's definitely a big difference.
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  And even all echo bikes
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  aren't even the same.
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  When I go to California, one of,
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  one of the echo bikes at
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  Lexus gym is just a little bit older.
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  Like people just use it
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  versus another one at her
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  gym is a little bit faster.
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  Like it just, I'm not even faster.
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  Just like regular, right?
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  Like, yeah.
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  Altitude,
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  like just different factors play
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  a role into fan bikes,
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  which I don't think it
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  should be in a qualifier.
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  Right.
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  Not just a little, a lot, Jeffrey.
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  Heck yeah.
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  If you're not gaming, you ain't winning.
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  So we had a lot of,
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  we'll dive into this
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  because there's a lot to
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  talk about tonight.
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  We missed a lot last week.
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  Well, we were only one day late,
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  but a lot happened before Waterpalooza.
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  And it started with the leak
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  announcement from the
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  Mayhem podcast that there
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  would be a last chance qualifier.
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  And sure enough,
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  CrossFit actually used the
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  Mayhem podcast to release
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  the fact that there was a
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  last chance qualifier.
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  It will be held six, thirteen to six,
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  sixteen.
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  And one man and one woman
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  will get to the games via
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  the last chance qualifier.
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  Now,
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  before this was leaked fully with details,
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  Carolyn had a plan.
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  Carolyn had a plan for what
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  the last chance workout should be,
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  and I want her to explain
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  it to all of you.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean the whole season,
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  like you already have a
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  bunch of tests that have
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  been conducted online and
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  it makes zero sense to add another,
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  like more volume for the
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  athletes online right after
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  like NorCal classic,
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  I think is the last one you
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  would add another qualifier right there.
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  And then people like, it makes no sense.
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  Why not take, you know,
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  one to three or one to five out of,
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  of the athletes right
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  outside the cut line of
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  each of the in-person semifinals and
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  Plus the same thing with the
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  online semifinals.
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  So like the people just out
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  put all of those athletes
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  on a separate leaderboard
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  where no one else affects
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  their scores and you take
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  their scores from the open
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  and the online semifinals together.
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  Best one moves on.
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  CrossFit has no additional
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  workouts to release and the
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  athletes don't have more workouts to do.
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  These are already public
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  videos for the athletes
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  that already have.
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  There's eight to ten events right there.
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  that are different style.
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  A lot of times athletes are
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  good at the open and then
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  not because it's lower skill engine,
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  stuff like that.
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  And then they might have a
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  little bit more difficult
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  time with the semifinals,
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  which is higher skill,
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  more difficult weights and
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  stuff like that.
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  And then you have athletes
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  that are good at that,
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  less at the other one or vice versa.
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  This makes the open matter,
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  makes the semifinals matter.
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  And you have to be
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  well-rounded in all types of fitness,
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  which is important.
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  Like when you talk about
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  consistency in CrossFit,
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  you should be able to do well at both,
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  not just at the higher
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  skill online semifinal style,
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  but everything.
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  Like, yeah,
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  you move on to the next stage
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  through the one percent,
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  but one percent is still quite a bit.
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  Like,
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  I would like to see just those
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  athletes against each other.
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  The rest of the leaderboard
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  isn't even affecting them.
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  Who's the best one overall
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  out of all of these eight to ten tests?
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  Like, it just makes sense.
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  And it's way less work for
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  CrossFit and the athletes.
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  It's already done.
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  So my question to you is
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  last week you proposed that
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  the online semifinal use
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  the three scores from the
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  open as scores in the online semifinal.
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  In my opinion,
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  you can't use the open and
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  the online semifinals for that.
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  And then the last chance qualifier.
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  If you were only to get one
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  of those two things,
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  which one of the two would you pick?
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  mean you have eleven spots
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  on I still think I I still
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  like the idea that you have
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  to be well-rounded there's
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  a lot of athletes that have
• 12:05
  moderate engine like an
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  open style lower skill and
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  then are just good at
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  higher skill higher reps
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  like six events like to me
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  you have you have not like
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  way more events with both
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  of them combined um
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  you have a little bit more
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  of the leaderboard impacting.
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  Like if you just did that,
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  if you just did that
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  overall with the one
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  percent that moves on, which will I mean,
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  it's it won't even be one
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  percent because not everyone registers.
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  But let's if you just do it
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  that all the public videos are there,
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  you could still do it for
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  the eleven spots that qualify.
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  But it would make the open matter.
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  Like, to me,
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  the eleven spots I would move on,
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  you're more well-rounded if
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  you're good at both.
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  You're less well-rounded if
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  you're only good at one
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  style or the other,
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  whether it's just the open
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  style or just semifinal.
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  Like,
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  we're talking about overall fitness
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  and consistency, and the more tests,
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  the better.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel like you see it, too.
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  Like...
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  the people who like get in
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  on the last chance
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  qualifier usually or so
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  those like last people to
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  make it they did great in
• 13:14
  the open barely made it
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  into the games then they do
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  great at the games because
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  the games I feel like
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  always tends to have that
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  more open capacity-ish feel
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  So, yeah,
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  I feel like excluding those is a
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  big miss.
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  If I had a choice,
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  I'd probably pick it to do
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  for the in-affiliate semifinals,
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  combine it for that score.
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  I would like to get to a
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  point where both of them count as one,
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  especially if the videos
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  are public for that top one percent.
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  If there are outliers, the public, I guess,
• 13:50
  could technically call
• 13:51
  certain videos out.
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  I like the idea of the last
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  chance qualifier having
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  only those athletes against
• 13:57
  each other because then you
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  have no random outliers.
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  And it's much easier to look
• 14:03
  at the videos and judge.
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  Yeah.
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  Right, but with your proposal,
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  the nine scores that
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  qualify people from the
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  in-person semi are the same
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  nine scores that will
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  qualify them from the last
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  chance qualifier.
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  Yeah.
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  And so I'm just saying you
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  probably can only have one of the two.
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  Yeah, one of the two for sure.
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  But then I think that you
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  don't need it as much.
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  You don't need that last chance.
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  You could do twelve spots
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  like that instead of eleven.
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  Like you don't necessarily
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  need it because you've proven over ten.
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  Like let's say the open has four scores.
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  And the online semifinal has six,
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  like you have ten scores
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  that every single one of
• 14:38
  those athletes did.
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  That's enough.
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  Why are we doing another online qualifier?
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  Why the heck?
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  And like these athletes just
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  competed some of them like
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  back to back weekends.
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  And then we're going to go
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  do another online qualifier.
• 14:51
  Cross has to think of more workouts,
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  judge more workouts.
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  The athletes have to do more volume.
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  It makes no sense.
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  Forget this other online qualifier.
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  You have the data right there.
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  All of these athletes have
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  the same ten scores or same ten tests.
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  Is it a confirmed online thing?
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  um it said online yeah okay
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  and dave said it in his
• 15:12
  weekend review that it was
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  going to be online did you
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  buy like one of the
• 15:16
  sponsors okay did he say
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  how the criteria for
• 15:20
  picking those athletes is
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  no I propose I proposed it
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  though okay what's crazy to me is
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  you have eliminated a ton of
• 15:31
  movements in the open and
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  the online semi.
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  And now your movement list
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  has been limited for this
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  last chance qualifier.
• 15:41
  Yep.
• 15:42
  They'll still repeat some movements.
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  But again,
• 15:45
  this is another reason why
• 15:46
  adding all those scores makes sense.
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  Because let's say you see a
• 15:51
  heavy clean in the open.
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  Great.
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  Some people are great at cleans.
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  What do you see in the semifinal?
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  A snatch.
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  Well, now you have both of them.
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  So like people that just had
• 15:59
  that heavy clean that might
• 16:01
  have a weaker snatch or vice versa,
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  both of those scores count
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  and you got to be well-rounded.
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  Or you saw burpees and
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  chest-to-bars in the open
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  and you don't see them in the semifinals.
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  You'll see ring muscle-up
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  and something else.
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  both tests are still testing
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  different things.
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  So I don't think the value
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  should only be on the semifinal.
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  So hopefully if it's not
• 16:26
  this year in future years,
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  they take that into consideration.
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  I mentioned there was a
• 16:31
  level one this weekend at
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  my home affiliate.
• 16:35
  And I mentioned it to the
• 16:39
  people that are running it.
• 16:40
  And they're like,
• 16:40
  that makes too much sense.
• 16:42
  He's like,
• 16:42
  I don't know why we didn't think
• 16:43
  about that.
• 16:43
  I was like,
• 16:45
  And then, yeah,
• 16:47
  so I propose the idea and
• 16:49
  it's going back to the team.
• 16:51
  So I'm not sure if they'll
• 16:54
  take that into
• 16:54
  consideration for this year
• 16:55
  or in future years.
• 16:57
  But I definitely think that
• 16:59
  it's something to think about.
• 17:02
  And like I said,
• 17:02
  it makes it easier on both
• 17:04
  the athletes and everyone.
• 17:06
  Absolutely.
• 17:08
  So we also had an
• 17:09
  announcement from the French Throwdown.
• 17:11
  Their qualifier is going to
• 17:14
  be a mixed bag.
• 17:16
  Twenty European athletes
• 17:18
  with a I think it's four
• 17:21
  French athletes at a minimum.
• 17:22
  Yeah.
• 17:23
  Three or four.
• 17:25
  Yeah.
• 17:25
  And then twenty spots in a
• 17:27
  worldwide qualifier.
• 17:31
  The twenty European spots
• 17:33
  would be based on historical data.
• 17:36
  The twenty online would be
• 17:38
  just your online qualifier
• 17:40
  top twenty get in.
• 17:42
  Thoughts of the mixed bag
• 17:44
  approach to qualifying?
• 17:48
  I mean,
• 17:48
  I like that they're getting their
• 17:51
  regional athletes for sure in there,
• 17:53
  but still not making it
• 17:55
  like invite only or there's
• 17:56
  like only region.
• 17:59
  I think it's great.
• 17:59
  I think it's a great way to approach it.
• 18:01
  Yeah, I agree.
• 18:02
  I think that this was it's a
• 18:05
  way to still to you can
• 18:06
  count the historical stuff where,
• 18:08
  you know,
• 18:08
  you save those athletes that
• 18:09
  have proven themselves, you know,
• 18:11
  from doing another
• 18:12
  qualifier and they've
• 18:13
  earned their way to get there.
• 18:14
  But you also give a chance
• 18:16
  to new athletes or other
• 18:17
  athletes that are currently
• 18:19
  doing well to to qualify for that event.
• 18:23
  So I like that.
• 18:26
  Copa Sur announced their dates,
• 18:28
  April eighteenth to the twentieth.
• 18:30
  So there will now be three
• 18:32
  in-person semifinals before
• 18:36
  the online semifinal.
• 18:39
  And that one is just South
• 18:41
  American athletes only, correct?
• 18:42
  I believe so.
• 18:44
  And two spots, I believe, at that one.
• 18:47
  Yeah.
• 18:48
  My...
• 18:50
  I get what you guys are saying,
• 18:52
  but the fact that every one
• 18:54
  of these has a different
• 18:55
  qualifying criteria is so
• 18:59
  hard to explain and just
• 19:01
  makes it how we talk.
• 19:03
  Like the season is just hard to explain.
• 19:06
  And how do you make it to that level?
• 19:08
  Well,
• 19:09
  you can do this online thing and you
• 19:11
  can get be top eleven or
• 19:15
  you can go to one of these
• 19:16
  ten things and it's a mixed
• 19:18
  bag as to how you're going to get there.
• 19:21
  you're going to get two or
• 19:22
  one person in from those
• 19:23
  and then just so we cover
• 19:26
  the basis we're going to
• 19:27
  have a one-shot deal last
• 19:29
  chance qualifier with one
• 19:31
  person that we don't even
• 19:34
  know it's just so
• 19:35
  convoluted it is I this is
• 19:39
  the most dei thing that
• 19:43
  I've ever heard of like
• 19:47
  It's not DEI.
• 19:48
  It's passive.
• 19:49
  It is.
• 19:50
  It is DEI.
• 19:50
  It is DEI.
• 19:51
  Hey, you guys do whatever you want.
• 19:54
  We don't want any
• 19:55
  responsibility over this.
• 19:57
  You do it how you want to do it.
• 19:59
  And we're just going to sit
• 20:00
  back and relax.
• 20:01
  Like,
• 20:02
  I think if all the regions did
• 20:03
  something like the French
• 20:04
  throwdown where half of the
• 20:05
  field is at least
• 20:07
  guaranteed from their region,
• 20:08
  I think it allows that
• 20:10
  local community to maybe, you know,
• 20:12
  get more fans or something
• 20:13
  and to just at least make
• 20:15
  sure that half the field is
• 20:17
  regionally covered.
• 20:20
  And then the other half is up for grabs.
• 20:23
  Yeah.
• 20:24
  But even the amount of
• 20:25
  athletes at each of these
• 20:26
  semifinals is different.
• 20:27
  Like, Mahan has twenty.
• 20:28
  Another one, like, I think NorCal has,
• 20:29
  like, fifty athletes going for one spot.
• 20:33
  And then, like, others are thirty.
• 20:36
  Like, that even changes throughout.
• 20:38
  So, like,
• 20:38
  the scoring system is going to be
• 20:40
  changing throughout all of these.
• 20:41
  Which plays a factor.
• 20:42
  You have a different scoring
• 20:43
  system that counts.
• 20:44
  And you could have different
• 20:45
  athletes depending on which ones you use.
• 20:48
  If you have eliminations and stuff.
• 20:50
  So, there's just so many factors.
• 20:52
  So many different things going on.
• 20:57
  Well, one more piece of news,
• 20:57
  and then we'll dive into Wadapalooza.
• 21:00
  And that is,
• 21:01
  it was announced earlier last
• 21:02
  week that Ricky Garrard and
• 21:04
  Emma Tall are now proven athletes.
• 21:08
  I have voiced my displeasure
• 21:11
  with this move from Mr. Garrard.
• 21:16
  It was weird with Emma Tall
• 21:17
  at Wadapalooza this week
• 21:19
  because someone interviewed
• 21:22
  David Shrunke and
• 21:24
  And he was still there as her coach.
• 21:28
  Yet she's now with, like, it just makes,
• 21:32
  it's just weird.
• 21:34
  Like, is it even real?
• 21:39
  I mean, she's,
• 21:39
  David's pretty much always
• 21:41
  going to be her person.
• 21:43
  I mean, are they married?
• 21:46
  Are they just partners?
• 21:47
  Whatever that, I don't know what the.
• 21:49
  I mean,
• 21:50
  he's probably always going to be
• 21:51
  there as her coach at every
• 21:53
  event if he's not competing.
• 21:55
  Yeah,
• 21:55
  you could be following a program
• 21:57
  without being coached by
• 21:58
  one of their coaches.
• 22:01
  I think that happens quite a bit.
• 22:03
  People are following, let's say,
• 22:04
  Mayhem Online and not
• 22:06
  necessarily interacting
• 22:07
  with any of the coaches,
• 22:08
  but just following the
• 22:09
  template compete program or
• 22:11
  proven compete or whatever they all are.
• 22:16
  But what has proven built?
• 22:19
  Other than Tia,
• 22:20
  they have not built anything.
• 22:22
  They've purchased all of their athletes.
• 22:28
  Maybe Sydney.
• 22:30
  Maybe.
• 22:33
  I mean, that's a pretty big... Like,
• 22:38
  she's done some pretty good performances.
• 22:40
  She's definitely improved.
• 22:42
  Oh, yeah.
• 22:42
  She's very, very fit.
• 22:44
  She's very fit.
• 22:45
  That's not a...
• 22:47
  She has a hole that is getting better.
• 22:51
  And other than that hole,
• 22:51
  she's really freaking fit.
• 22:53
  Yeah,
• 22:54
  she's got some wheelhouse stuff for sure.
• 22:57
  But that's maybe her only
• 23:00
  proven's only like, hey,
• 23:01
  we built this athlete.
• 23:05
  Yeah.
• 23:08
  I don't know.
• 23:09
  I mean,
• 23:09
  I'm very curious to see what
• 23:10
  happens with Ricky over there.
• 23:16
  I think the,
• 23:16
  the Australian connection made
• 23:19
  sense with proven.
• 23:20
  I think if he had gone to another,
• 23:22
  I would have been like, Hmm.
• 23:23
  But like when it was like proven,
• 23:25
  you think about his, you know,
• 23:26
  his background with Tia and
• 23:28
  maybe their relationship over the years,
• 23:29
  like, like, okay, I can see it.
• 23:32
  So it's not like it was like
• 23:33
  completely out to like,
• 23:39
  not expected.
• 23:40
  And then obviously we,
• 23:41
  we had heard the rumors prior, but, um,
• 23:44
  it was actually confirmed now.
• 23:47
  Is it going to make a difference?
• 23:48
  I don't know.
• 23:49
  I guess time will tell.
• 23:51
  Um, just, I, I feel for Justin.
• 23:54
  I think that Justin's a very passionate,
• 23:57
  uh, coach and really bought into, um,
• 24:01
  coaching Ricky and, and, um,
• 24:05
  you know, had,
• 24:06
  he put all his confidence into him and,
• 24:09
  um, sad to see that, that, you know,
• 24:12
  he decided to go another direction.
• 24:14
  Um,
• 24:15
  when you have someone that takes a
• 24:16
  chance on you when not a
• 24:18
  lot of others did.
• 24:22
  Yeah.
• 24:22
  I've admitted I'm way too
• 24:23
  close to the situation, you know,
• 24:25
  that I'm friends with Justin and the,
• 24:28
  the anti-loyalty thing is
• 24:29
  just hard for me,
• 24:31
  but I do have a bias and I
• 24:33
  will admit that I have a bias.
• 24:41
  So yeah.
• 24:43
  I think Sydney would have
• 24:44
  improved under any programming.
• 24:46
  This has kind of been my
• 24:47
  sentiment with every
• 24:50
  athlete in every program.
• 24:52
  They're not,
• 24:53
  the programs are not much
• 24:54
  different than each other.
• 24:55
  It's honestly just who you
• 24:58
  it's consistency.
• 25:00
  Um,
• 25:00
  so you need to get in where you fit in
• 25:02
  and who you feel like you
• 25:04
  have a connection with.
• 25:06
  Um,
• 25:09
  There is some technique
• 25:11
  development that can happen
• 25:13
  that some coaches are
• 25:14
  better at teaching than others.
• 25:18
  If anything, I would say like,
• 25:21
  maybe like H WPO had the
• 25:24
  edge on that with having, um, Amy, Amy,
• 25:28
  as for a lifting, like in, like,
• 25:30
  I think copper would
• 25:31
  attribute some success
• 25:32
  there from her direct coaching.
• 25:36
  but in terms of following a template,
• 25:38
  I think there's not much,
• 25:39
  like there's not huge
• 25:41
  difference maybe like, you know,
• 25:42
  between the programming and
• 25:43
  stuff like that.
• 25:44
  Um, I completely agree with Jamie.
• 25:46
  I think a lot of times people program hop,
• 25:50
  um, a lot.
• 25:51
  And, um,
• 25:52
  It's not necessarily the program.
• 25:53
  It's not listening to your body.
• 25:54
  It's not, you know,
• 25:56
  not taking the rest days when you should.
• 25:57
  What kind of intensity are
• 25:58
  you doing the workouts at?
• 25:59
  Are you what are you doing
• 26:01
  the rest of the hours of the day?
• 26:03
  Like, are you consistent with the program?
• 26:05
  Like people just look at
• 26:06
  everything and they want to
• 26:07
  do what this person is doing.
• 26:08
  And they think that because
• 26:09
  this person is doing the program,
• 26:11
  they're all of a sudden
• 26:11
  going to be fit like that.
• 26:13
  It just doesn't work like that.
• 26:14
  Yeah.
• 26:16
  There's so many factors.
• 26:17
  It's genetics.
• 26:18
  It's your sports experience.
• 26:19
  There's so many factors that
• 26:21
  play a role into how much
• 26:23
  you're going to develop in
• 26:24
  terms of your potential.
• 26:27
  But just being consistent,
• 26:29
  staying the course for a
• 26:31
  significant amount of time
• 26:32
  also is very valuable to see.
• 26:36
  You know what you can do.
• 26:37
  And when someone has stayed
• 26:38
  at a certain program for many,
• 26:39
  many years and then want something else,
• 26:41
  I get that.
• 26:42
  But if you're just thinking
• 26:43
  that you're going to do a
• 26:44
  program and you're going to
• 26:46
  be as fit as this person
• 26:48
  because they follow it,
• 26:49
  two people can follow the
• 26:49
  same program and get
• 26:50
  completely different results.
• 26:52
  Like it has nothing to do.
• 26:54
  with that but you know
• 26:55
  people are very influenced
• 26:57
  by what they see on social
• 26:59
  media um you know the
• 27:01
  differences in media
• 27:03
  companies that these
• 27:04
  programs you know have and
• 27:07
  um so they're like oh look
• 27:09
  at this what they're doing
• 27:09
  it's all flashy it's all
• 27:10
  highlights but when you
• 27:13
  look at the programming
• 27:14
  people are still doing
• 27:15
  crossfit and right regular stuff
• 27:20
  Jay Birch,
• 27:20
  I will see what I can do about
• 27:22
  getting Justin on.
• 27:24
  I just wanted to wait till
• 27:25
  it was a formal
• 27:25
  announcement before I had him on.
• 27:28
  Now that it is, I know he was in Miami,
• 27:32
  so I'll let him get back
• 27:33
  home and then we'll see if
• 27:35
  he has some time this week.
• 27:41
  So, Wadapalooza.
• 27:43
  What we're going to do this
• 27:45
  time and probably going
• 27:46
  forward with most major
• 27:47
  comps is we'll touch on a
• 27:50
  couple of the big stories
• 27:52
  and then we're going to do love and hate.
• 27:54
  And we're just going to go
• 27:55
  around and each one of us
• 27:57
  is going to give either a love or a hate.
• 27:59
  It's up to you what you want
• 28:00
  to give at that time.
• 28:02
  And then it becomes a discussion point.
• 28:04
  When that's done,
• 28:04
  we'll move on to the next
• 28:05
  person until we run out of
• 28:07
  stuff to talk about.
• 28:09
  And the chat can go ahead
• 28:10
  and give us some love or
• 28:12
  hate ideas as well.
• 28:16
  Broadcasting is already on the list.
• 28:19
  We don't need to start just
• 28:20
  hammering us with broadcasting.
• 28:22
  We will touch on that for sure.
• 28:26
  The first thing I wanted to talk about,
• 28:27
  which I thought was cool,
• 28:30
  was that apparently last minute,
• 28:33
  the person who was supposed
• 28:34
  to sing the national anthem
• 28:35
  could not get there.
• 28:37
  And so Haley Adams sang the
• 28:39
  national anthem two
• 28:40
  different days at Waterpalooza.
• 28:43
  And as someone who has done
• 28:44
  the national anthem at
• 28:45
  events like five times, it is the most,
• 28:49
  I would sing any Prince song,
• 28:52
  any Michael Jackson song in
• 28:54
  front of thousands.
• 28:56
  Then the national anthem is
• 28:58
  so hard to sing.
• 29:01
  It was really cool to see
• 29:02
  her go out and do that and
• 29:03
  be comfortable enough to do
• 29:04
  that because it is hard.
• 29:07
  Yeah.
• 29:08
  You need to be ballsy to do that.
• 29:10
  Cause all eyes are on you.
• 29:13
  Like you can get nervous.
• 29:15
  And as much as you know, the lyrics,
• 29:17
  like you just sometimes, you know,
• 29:20
  emotions and nerves get the best of you.
• 29:23
  So like I'm listening and
• 29:24
  I'm like just nervous for her.
• 29:26
  Oh yeah.
• 29:27
  Um,
• 29:28
  just cause like we all know her.
• 29:29
  Right.
• 29:30
  So like,
• 29:30
  it's just like different than a
• 29:33
  random singer that you just don't follow.
• 29:35
  So, um,
• 29:36
  props to her for stepping in and
• 29:39
  not turning down the opportunity to, um,
• 29:42
  sing a national anthem for her country.
• 29:45
  Yeah.
• 29:46
  I thought it was super cool.
• 29:48
  And just one of the
• 29:48
  highlights of the weekend.
• 29:50
  Um,
• 29:51
  and she also last minute hopped into
• 29:53
  reps ahead after this.
• 29:56
  So she was just saying yes to everybody.
• 30:00
  It's good.
• 30:00
  That's good.
• 30:01
  Take your opportunities.
• 30:02
  I think like less,
• 30:03
  I think she feels less
• 30:04
  pressure maybe than before.
• 30:05
  And just as like taking, yeah,
• 30:07
  like you said,
• 30:07
  like more opportunities and
• 30:09
  more being in the moment and just,
• 30:11
  you know, these opportunities don't,
• 30:13
  aren't going to be around forever.
• 30:15
  And if you have the chance
• 30:17
  to hop in on a reps ahead
• 30:18
  or whatever things that come her way,
• 30:21
  like why not just do it?
• 30:22
  Like,
• 30:24
  overcome that fear and step
• 30:26
  outside your comfort zone.
• 30:27
  I think that it's great.
• 30:29
  I think it shows some growth
• 30:30
  in her as well.
• 30:33
  A train to lift says a
• 30:35
  completely different Haley
• 30:36
  that showed the confidence she has now.
• 30:38
  Great to see.
• 30:40
  It was cool.
• 30:41
  Now we have to get Scott to
• 30:42
  sing at Legends next time.
• 30:44
  That would be awesome.
• 30:47
  That would be awesome.
• 30:48
  I'm telling you what,
• 30:50
  my knees buckle doing it
• 30:51
  because practicing, I'll go into a loop.
• 30:54
  There's a part in the song
• 30:55
  that sounds so familiar to
• 30:57
  another part that you can
• 30:58
  just end up in a loop.
• 30:59
  Yeah.
• 31:01
  And I'm always afraid I'm
• 31:03
  going to do that.
• 31:05
  So, but I can get these sinuses cured.
• 31:11
  I would have no problem doing it,
• 31:12
  but I would be nervous.
• 31:14
  I will tell you that.
• 31:16
  All right.
• 31:17
  So the big stories for me are this.
• 31:23
  Lucy Campbell.
• 31:26
  Is this not the story that
• 31:28
  CrossFit needed at the time it needed it?
• 31:33
  It was so good.
• 31:35
  I am so happy for her and
• 31:38
  like how happy she was.
• 31:40
  And just like her reaction
• 31:42
  to winning events was just so it was,
• 31:47
  it was really nice to see.
• 31:49
  Um, I was so excited for her.
• 31:52
  So we know she's like got great capacity.
• 31:54
  That's like, I mean, unreal.
• 31:57
  She's one of the best on the
• 31:58
  bikes that you will see.
• 31:59
  She's done a couple of rogue
• 32:01
  challenge before.
• 32:01
  That was like a biker row and ski.
• 32:08
  And like, she was competitive.
• 32:10
  I think I like a second
• 32:11
  place overall with people
• 32:12
  that are in the concept to world,
• 32:14
  like high level on the mission,
• 32:17
  like capacity.
• 32:19
  And she wins Jackie Pro.
• 32:20
  So when you think about a CrossFit workout,
• 32:23
  what bigger workout than CrossFit,
• 32:24
  like than Jackie Pro, which rowing,
• 32:26
  thrusters, bar muscle-ups.
• 32:28
  She won that event.
• 32:30
  Like as a rookie at the games,
• 32:31
  she wasn't just like at the
• 32:32
  back of the field.
• 32:33
  She was sixteenth place and
• 32:35
  won two events.
• 32:38
  Yeah.
• 32:39
  Not many rookies win one event.
• 32:40
  She won two events.
• 32:42
  Listen,
• 32:43
  anybody who goes toe-to-toe with
• 32:46
  Laura in the final event
• 32:49
  Mono a mono and doesn't flinch.
• 32:53
  Just shows you how good she could be.
• 32:57
  I can't believe she went for
• 32:57
  that last ring muscle up.
• 32:59
  I cannot believe she went for it.
• 33:02
  She had a surgery that
• 33:05
  shortened her wrist.
• 33:08
  They went in and shaved down her wrist,
• 33:10
  the bone from her wrist
• 33:12
  back to shorten it so that
• 33:14
  it would better fit.
• 33:16
  And there was not a great
• 33:19
  chance that she was coming
• 33:20
  back from this.
• 33:21
  Right.
• 33:22
  And to be where she is today,
• 33:24
  going toe-to-toe with Laura
• 33:26
  on the final event and not flinching, man,
• 33:30
  goosebumps.
• 33:32
  crazy when that happens.
• 33:34
  If you haven't followed her
• 33:36
  journey the last couple years,
• 33:38
  go back and look at her Instagram.
• 33:41
  She has so many real... Not reals,
• 33:44
  but real emotions and just...
• 33:48
  her, no, her failures and her, um,
• 33:51
  struggles with body image
• 33:53
  with just cause like her
• 33:54
  body was changing as she was like,
• 33:56
  not able to do everything, her risks, her,
• 33:58
  her problems with struggles with that.
• 34:00
  Like I've really followed
• 34:01
  her journey the last few
• 34:02
  years and I've kept contact
• 34:04
  with her here and there.
• 34:05
  So like,
• 34:05
  that's why I was a fan of hers
• 34:07
  before the weekend and
• 34:08
  called her as a dark horse on John Young,
• 34:10
  uh, on barbell spin, by the way,
• 34:12
  before the event started.
• 34:14
  Um,
• 34:15
  But it's just really cool to
• 34:16
  see that progression and
• 34:19
  that struggle and that she
• 34:20
  was able to compete this
• 34:21
  weekend a little bit freely
• 34:23
  with no expectations, no pressure.
• 34:26
  And I think that really
• 34:26
  allowed her to shine under
• 34:29
  the lights of Waterpalooza.
• 34:32
  And in a six, you know,
• 34:33
  she didn't just like barely win.
• 34:37
  Like, yeah, five points.
• 34:39
  But she got four second
• 34:41
  places out of six events.
• 34:44
  And another one was a
• 34:45
  seventh place or something.
• 34:46
  She dominated.
• 34:48
  She's only just been able to do cleans.
• 34:51
  Most of the cleans that she did,
• 34:53
  she'll catch with one arm
• 34:54
  in front in a zombie
• 34:56
  position and just catch the
• 34:57
  other one in a regular clean.
• 34:59
  That's how she's been
• 35:00
  cleaning just to not get
• 35:02
  into the front rack position for so long.
• 35:04
  So the one event that she
• 35:06
  gets a bad placing...
• 35:10
  she would have been winning
• 35:11
  by so much even.
• 35:12
  So that was my question with her.
• 35:16
  Like, historically, she's quite strong,
• 35:18
  isn't she?
• 35:20
  I think she's decently strong for sure.
• 35:23
  I mean,
• 35:23
  when I looked at the numbers of the
• 35:25
  field this weekend,
• 35:26
  the girls have gotten so strong.
• 35:29
  Like an eighteenth place was
• 35:31
  like a two thirty five.
• 35:32
  Yeah, it's insane.
• 35:33
  You know,
• 35:33
  you do two forty and I think it
• 35:35
  was like thirteenth place.
• 35:36
  I'm like, damn, like not just for one rep,
• 35:38
  like just like a complex.
• 35:40
  Right.
• 35:40
  Like you're looking at these
• 35:41
  numbers and you're like, wow,
• 35:43
  like the field is just so strong now.
• 35:45
  Yeah.
• 35:47
  So, yeah, I know.
• 35:48
  I think she's not weak by any means,
• 35:50
  but I don't think it would
• 35:51
  be her main thing.
• 35:54
  Like, she's definitely more of, like,
• 35:57
  conditioning athlete.
• 35:59
  Like, great.
• 36:00
  I mean, she's a national level swimmer.
• 36:02
  So, right.
• 36:03
  Swimming one was always a
• 36:05
  good one for her.
• 36:06
  Christy, that was crazy.
• 36:07
  I was on the floor calling it.
• 36:09
  Couldn't believe it.
• 36:11
  Meredith Jones, if anything,
• 36:13
  I think she was so worried
• 36:14
  about what she couldn't do
• 36:16
  in regards to the risk that
• 36:17
  she didn't realize how much
• 36:18
  she could knock it out of the park.
• 36:20
  Otherwise,
• 36:21
  that's exactly what I feel like.
• 36:22
  I feel like she was worried
• 36:24
  about that clean event,
• 36:26
  worried about some of these
• 36:26
  like like blitz that.
• 36:29
  Yeah,
• 36:30
  I think that's exactly what happened.
• 36:32
  And in six events like.
• 36:35
  You know, if you do ten events,
• 36:36
  maybe Laura takes her, you know,
• 36:39
  as it goes on, right?
• 36:40
  Because Laura, like, in a six event,
• 36:42
  sometimes you just... But
• 36:45
  it was just Lucy's weekend.
• 36:46
  Like,
• 36:46
  it was just her... It was her weekend.
• 36:47
  Like, she... Like,
• 36:49
  Laura made some mistakes.
• 36:50
  Like, on the handstand walk,
• 36:51
  she came down earlier.
• 36:52
  I don't like that workout
• 36:53
  with the two lines.
• 36:54
  I thought that was
• 36:55
  completely stupid of Wadapalooza.
• 36:56
  The yellow line was for the lunges.
• 36:58
  The green line was the handstand push-ups.
• 36:59
  Like, no.
• 37:01
  Like, that's so confusing.
• 37:02
  You're upside down.
• 37:03
  You can't even see, like...
• 37:05
  I didn't like that they had the two lines,
• 37:06
  but she made the mistake there.
• 37:08
  Um, you know,
• 37:10
  I thought she pushed the pace
• 37:11
  maybe a little bit too much
• 37:12
  on that last workout.
• 37:13
  A couple of mistakes that
• 37:14
  like just normally Laura
• 37:15
  doesn't make it in a six,
• 37:17
  six event weekend.
• 37:18
  You just couldn't do it.
• 37:19
  Like,
• 37:20
  like Lucy was too perfect on
• 37:22
  everything else to have any
• 37:24
  execution errors for, for Laura.
• 37:29
  Yeah,
• 37:30
  some people were jumping ahead in the
• 37:31
  comments.
• 37:31
  I see your comments,
• 37:33
  but we're going to get to
• 37:33
  that as one of the main stories.
• 37:36
  So regardless of six events or whatever,
• 37:40
  Lucy came out of nowhere.
• 37:42
  We haven't seen her in two
• 37:43
  years because she's been
• 37:45
  fighting this uphill battle.
• 37:47
  And to come out and knock it
• 37:48
  out of the park,
• 37:49
  I don't care how bad of a
• 37:51
  weekend Laura had.
• 37:53
  Lucy won that freaking event.
• 37:55
  She took it.
• 37:56
  It was head to head at the end.
• 37:58
  Laura had every opportunity
• 38:00
  to beat her in that last event.
• 38:02
  She couldn't do it.
• 38:03
  Lucy won.
• 38:04
  Lucy wins the title.
• 38:06
  And it was awesome to see.
• 38:08
  It was the best moment of the weekend.
• 38:09
  It was like a one-off home run.
• 38:11
  Best moment in years on the
• 38:14
  CrossFit scene.
• 38:14
  Yeah.
• 38:16
  I loved it.
• 38:17
  And to watch her reaction
• 38:18
  and emotions running down
• 38:20
  to the finish line, knowing she got it.
• 38:24
  And then the interview after
• 38:25
  where she's crying through the interview.
• 38:28
  Best moment in years.
• 38:29
  I agree.
• 38:32
  So then we moved to the men's side.
• 38:35
  And a couple weeks ago I did
• 38:36
  on my lunch with Clydesdale a wish list.
• 38:40
  And my wish was that Emily
• 38:42
  Rolfe and James Sprague
• 38:44
  could show the world that
• 38:46
  last year wasn't a fluke.
• 38:50
  James Sprague took a first, four seconds,
• 38:55
  and an eighteenth in the lifting event.
• 39:01
  I think, and people in the chat are saying,
• 39:04
  do you think Adler
• 39:05
  withdrawing diminishes what James did?
• 39:07
  No.
• 39:10
  You take on who is there at the event,
• 39:15
  you have a performance like that.
• 39:17
  If it was Adler who did that performance,
• 39:20
  we'd be talking about how
• 39:21
  always on par to win the games again.
• 39:23
  Oh, blah, blah, blah.
• 39:25
  James does it.
• 39:26
  And there was like, well,
• 39:27
  he's a tolerant athlete.
• 39:28
  And I don't really know.
• 39:30
  I'm tired of like all the
• 39:32
  caveats to the winds.
• 39:35
  The pressure was on James showed up.
• 39:38
  He has gotten so much better.
• 39:41
  Oh yeah.
• 39:42
  So much better.
• 39:44
  Yeah,
• 39:44
  I think I was very impressed with him
• 39:47
  this weekend.
• 39:48
  You know, he didn't look great at Rogue.
• 39:51
  Obviously, he looked amazing at the games.
• 39:54
  So this is the one event that, you know,
• 39:56
  people had circled and we
• 39:57
  were hoping to see the
• 39:58
  battle with him and Jeff Adler.
• 40:00
  Didn't get to see it.
• 40:02
  But, you know,
• 40:04
  you got seventy five
• 40:04
  thousand dollars on the line.
• 40:06
  I don't understand why more
• 40:07
  of these athletes don't compete.
• 40:08
  Some of them, I think, are, you know,
• 40:11
  don't want to compete.
• 40:13
  put their reputation,
• 40:15
  their ego stuff on the line.
• 40:16
  But, you know,
• 40:17
  James is willing to put that
• 40:20
  on the line and say,
• 40:21
  I'm competing and come and beat me here.
• 40:24
  And, I mean,
• 40:26
  he performed really great this
• 40:27
  weekend on workouts that we
• 40:29
  didn't think that he would do great.
• 40:30
  He cleaned in that complex three-forty,
• 40:35
  I believe.
• 40:36
  And that last one with
• 40:38
  thrusters and ring muscle-up, like,
• 40:40
  Traditionally,
• 40:41
  he wasn't great at those
• 40:42
  movements and he showed us
• 40:43
  at the games that he has
• 40:45
  improved his thruster and
• 40:47
  gymnastics capacity,
• 40:48
  like in terms of that
• 40:50
  pulling with the bar
• 40:51
  muscles and chest to bar.
• 40:52
  And, and then this time around,
• 40:54
  like for him to be, you know,
• 40:55
  an athlete like Pat Vellner,
• 40:57
  who would normally almost
• 40:58
  always win a ring muscle up
• 41:00
  workout and thrusters like.
• 41:03
  Three forty five.
• 41:05
  Yeah.
• 41:05
  Okay.
• 41:06
  Yeah.
• 41:06
  Three forty five.
• 41:07
  And it was Pat.
• 41:07
  I think that got three fifty
• 41:09
  maybe by five five pounds.
• 41:12
  But yeah, I mean,
• 41:13
  some big improvements there.
• 41:14
  I mean,
• 41:15
  the podium was not there from the games.
• 41:17
  When you look at Brent
• 41:18
  Dallin in the fourth place,
• 41:21
  Hopper and Jeff Adler,
• 41:22
  those are four athletes I
• 41:23
  would like to see him go against.
• 41:25
  Obviously, Brent's retiring now,
• 41:27
  but he competed against the
• 41:28
  field that he did.
• 41:30
  Austin Hatfield looked great.
• 41:32
  pat's always in the mix and
• 41:34
  you know he came out on top
• 41:35
  and deserved it he he was
• 41:36
  dominant he did um I I'm
• 41:43
  just happy for the kid like
• 41:45
  he you can tell he has put
• 41:46
  in the work heck yeah um
• 41:49
  and has done it with a
• 41:50
  smile on his face and um yeah
• 41:56
  And what was really cool is
• 41:59
  I watched Dallin and
• 42:00
  Madaris and Hopper after whatever.
• 42:03
  And I think it was one of the nights,
• 42:07
  Dallin's like,
• 42:07
  do you guys realize what James did?
• 42:09
  Like, Dallin is being his hype man.
• 42:11
  Like,
• 42:12
  he took a first four seconds in the
• 42:15
  lifting event.
• 42:19
  Like, Dallin's going on about,
• 42:21
  that's an amazing weekend.
• 42:23
  Yeah, his execution was...
• 42:27
  Perfect this weekend.
• 42:30
  And he had pneumonia at Rogue.
• 42:31
  Exactly.
• 42:33
  And I, you know.
• 42:35
  I don't think the events
• 42:36
  there would have
• 42:37
  necessarily been as great regardless.
• 42:39
  I don't think the pneumonia
• 42:41
  would have put him on the podium, but.
• 42:43
  Right.
• 42:46
  But there were events here that I was like,
• 42:49
  that's not necessarily his,
• 42:51
  and he still did really well.
• 42:52
  Mm-hmm.
• 42:54
  And so I'm excited to see
• 42:56
  what he can do over a full
• 42:57
  season and maybe show us
• 42:59
  how much better he's gotten
• 43:01
  at some of the things we
• 43:02
  thought he was bad at.
• 43:06
  It's not very many things.
• 43:08
  Honestly, other than a one rep,
• 43:10
  I don't see where you say
• 43:11
  the guy has a hole.
• 43:13
  And it's not in a hole.
• 43:14
  He's not getting last like
• 43:15
  Laura is in handstand push-ups.
• 43:19
  Yeah, and in a six-event competition,
• 43:23
  a max lift sometimes skews
• 43:25
  the leaderboard quite a bit, right?
• 43:28
  So like I said,
• 43:30
  James and Lucy would have
• 43:31
  dominated even more
• 43:33
  probably the weekend had it
• 43:35
  not been for that event.
• 43:37
  Had it been mixed, let's say,
• 43:38
  with a buy-in of some sort
• 43:39
  of monostructural or gymnastics,
• 43:42
  it could have been even a better weekend.
• 43:47
  So a lot of the,
• 43:48
  a lot of the talk in the chat is about,
• 43:50
  um, uh, uh, shoot, here we go.
• 43:59
  Love Lucy.
• 44:00
  We'll get to the outcasts.
• 44:03
  Um,
• 44:04
  if Sprague's win at all diminishes
• 44:06
  because Adler pulled out,
• 44:07
  there's a lot of this in the chat.
• 44:10
  Um,
• 44:14
  If people don't compete,
• 44:15
  then they don't have the chance to win.
• 44:16
  Sprague killed it, beat the field.
• 44:18
  He was against,
• 44:18
  can't take anything away from him.
• 44:22
  Yeah, he did.
• 44:23
  I mean, it's not his fault.
• 44:24
  He did what he had to do.
• 44:25
  Like, whatever.
• 44:28
  Meredith, I absolutely loved it.
• 44:31
  Like,
• 44:31
  do I think that there's some key
• 44:32
  figures missing in that field?
• 44:34
  Absolutely.
• 44:34
  I'm not going to deny that
• 44:35
  there's some people that
• 44:36
  can take him down in my opinion,
• 44:38
  but he did what he needed to do.
• 44:40
  And he's honestly,
• 44:42
  he's showing us that he's
• 44:44
  made some huge improvements
• 44:46
  and I guess until someone
• 44:48
  beats him right now.
• 44:51
  Vi says,
• 44:51
  I think people have questions
• 44:52
  until Adler and Spriggo
• 44:53
  head-to-head this year.
• 44:55
  I think it's more than those two.
• 44:58
  It's going to be Dallin.
• 44:59
  It's going to be Hopper.
• 45:00
  It's going to be Hatfield.
• 45:02
  And these two.
• 45:03
  When those five are all on
• 45:04
  the floor together, and Roman and Ricky,
• 45:08
  like the men's field is as
• 45:10
  deep as it has ever been.
• 45:12
  I mean, he competed against Hatfield.
• 45:14
  He beat him.
• 45:14
  I think Dalen would tell you
• 45:16
  that James is fitter than him.
• 45:18
  Especially at that final workout.
• 45:20
  I think Dalen said this before.
• 45:21
  James is superior at
• 45:23
  thrusters and gymnastics.
• 45:28
  Then Austin?
• 45:30
  No, then Dallin.
• 45:32
  Oh, then Dallin.
• 45:32
  He didn't beat Austin at that event,
• 45:34
  but he beat Austin over the weekend.
• 45:36
  We already saw that matchup.
• 45:37
  You can't keep saying, well,
• 45:38
  this... I mean,
• 45:41
  he's... It is only six events.
• 45:44
  It's not a complete test.
• 45:45
  That's the thing.
• 45:47
  This was not a test of fitness.
• 45:48
  When you put those eight guys together,
• 45:52
  the leaderboard's going to
• 45:53
  shuffle a lot more.
• 45:54
  Yeah, yes, there will be some mix up.
• 45:56
  It is going to make it a
• 45:57
  little more different for all of them.
• 46:02
  A little more different.
• 46:03
  That's awesome.
• 46:07
  Yeah.
• 46:08
  Yeah,
• 46:08
  Laura fitting figured out how to do
• 46:10
  the handstand push ups.
• 46:11
  Who hasn't figured that out?
• 46:13
  There's a lot of people like
• 46:14
  people are being picky on Laura.
• 46:16
  Like that was not even the worst,
• 46:18
  not even close to the worst
• 46:19
  handstand pushups.
• 46:20
  We saw that weekend with the wall facing.
• 46:22
  There was way worse than that.
• 46:23
  People always programmed.
• 46:25
  Like that's, that's not an,
• 46:26
  like I've had kipping wall
• 46:28
  facing handstand pushups
• 46:29
  programmed and done them.
• 46:31
  I'm sure every, I'm sure.
• 46:33
  What?
• 46:35
  In the video,
• 46:35
  you can see she's getting no reps.
• 46:37
  That's because they're
• 46:38
  apparently this goes,
• 46:40
  that was one is one of my things.
• 46:41
  Like this goes back to not
• 46:42
  knowing the standards.
• 46:44
  I realized it didn't say
• 46:45
  strict while facing handstand pushups,
• 46:48
  but apparently from what I'm reading,
• 46:51
  it did say legs must remain
• 46:53
  straight in the movement.
• 46:57
  That's what I am hearing as well.
• 46:58
  Like you can draw,
• 46:59
  but like you can drive your
• 47:01
  hips towards the wall,
• 47:02
  but she bent her knees a little bit.
• 47:04
  Yeah.
• 47:04
  But like,
• 47:04
  I'm just saying you can drive your hips.
• 47:06
  Like it doesn't say anything on that.
• 47:08
  It said belly could not touch the wall.
• 47:11
  And it said legs must remain straight.
• 47:13
  Yeah.
• 47:15
  But there was like some
• 47:17
  finishing positions that were like,
• 47:19
  not even, Oh my gosh.
• 47:20
  Like I'm, I'm saying like,
• 47:24
  that wasn't at all even
• 47:26
  close to the worst like I
• 47:27
  agree we're being picky on
• 47:28
  her but there was a lot of
• 47:30
  athletes that had um that
• 47:33
  also had kipping handstand
• 47:34
  push-ups and but like
• 47:37
  obviously all eyes are on
• 47:39
  her whenever there's a
• 47:40
  strict handstand push-up
• 47:41
  workout so um yeah yeah um
• 47:47
  so that was the individual side the teams
• 47:53
  The boys win again.
• 47:56
  And I think that just goes
• 47:58
  to show you they've been
• 47:59
  doing this enough years
• 48:01
  that the three of them just
• 48:02
  work really well together.
• 48:04
  Yeah.
• 48:04
  You take three fit guys that
• 48:06
  also know how to move the
• 48:07
  worm and communicate.
• 48:08
  And there's not ego issues.
• 48:09
  Like I'm sure on some of the teams,
• 48:11
  when you put three individuals together,
• 48:13
  they want to contribute,
• 48:14
  they want to do this part.
• 48:16
  And it's like,
• 48:16
  I think when you have three athletes,
• 48:18
  like maybe Noah Travis and Chandler,
• 48:22
  like they'll take whatever role,
• 48:24
  you know what I mean?
• 48:25
  Like there's no ego as much,
• 48:27
  like they just know what to do to win.
• 48:29
  Um, so I think, but yeah,
• 48:33
  I think they moved well together.
• 48:34
  They did well.
• 48:35
  And it obviously helps to
• 48:37
  maybe practice a little bit together.
• 48:39
  Uh, yeah.
• 48:42
  And I will say that on the women's side,
• 48:45
  probably the most unlikely
• 48:47
  pairing of three
• 48:48
  individuals in the history
• 48:51
  of water Palooza with Danielle, Brandon,
• 48:54
  Shelby, Neil, and Emma Lawson.
• 49:00
  how did they even
• 49:01
  communicate to get put together?
• 49:05
  Yeah.
• 49:06
  They end up winning the whole dang thing.
• 49:11
  I mean, there's three very, very,
• 49:12
  very fit ladies together.
• 49:16
  We saw on the men's side that that's not,
• 49:18
  that's not what I know.
• 49:19
  It surprises me that they
• 49:21
  were the winners.
• 49:22
  Um, but yeah, super, um,
• 49:26
  super interesting pairing
• 49:27
  I'm curious who reached out
• 49:28
  to who I in like the name
• 49:31
  the team name is weird to
• 49:32
  me like emma lawson is not
• 49:34
  an outcast and any or
• 49:37
  norish like maybe danielle
• 49:38
  could take that name but
• 49:40
  like I don't shelby's not
• 49:42
  an outcast emma lawson for
• 49:44
  sure is not an outcast yeah
• 49:48
  maybe managers or something like that but
• 49:53
  They were consistent
• 49:54
  basically the whole weekend, right?
• 49:56
  They didn't have a... I
• 49:57
  think they had maybe one
• 49:58
  event that was meh.
• 50:01
  The team that I was the most
• 50:03
  surprised with on the
• 50:04
  female side was the Broadway girls.
• 50:07
  They didn't do as well as I expected them,
• 50:10
  both Well Sister and Haley.
• 50:11
  I thought they would do better.
• 50:16
  Okay.
• 50:19
  I thought the...
• 50:22
  I thought the salt bays would do better.
• 50:29
  Well,
• 50:29
  they had it in the bag till going
• 50:32
  into the last event.
• 50:33
  They were lunging so slow.
• 50:38
  Yeah.
• 50:38
  They were like really lunging slowly.
• 50:40
  I felt.
• 50:43
  Cause they were in the lead and like,
• 50:44
  and then they were like, they had the,
• 50:46
  the,
• 50:47
  the worm on their shoulder and they
• 50:48
  just were like moving very,
• 50:51
  very catching up.
• 50:52
  Did they have to set it down?
• 50:53
  I couldn't see what happened there.
• 50:54
  I thought,
• 50:55
  thought they got a no rep either
• 50:57
  on the way back in or something.
• 50:59
  Yeah.
• 50:59
  Maybe I missed that.
• 51:02
  Um, team Noosa and Swedish house mafia.
• 51:07
  Yeah.
• 51:07
  Damn.
• 51:08
  That's, that's impressive.
• 51:10
  Yeah.
• 51:10
  Yeah.
• 51:12
  That was crazy.
• 51:14
  Yeah.
• 51:14
  That one, the team that got second,
• 51:16
  like no one, I mean, I won't say no one,
• 51:19
  because obviously people
• 51:19
  that would know those
• 51:20
  athletes a little bit more may pick them.
• 51:22
  But like a lot of us didn't
• 51:25
  know much about that team
• 51:26
  and for them to finish
• 51:27
  second with that field, you know,
• 51:29
  you look at the podium and
• 51:30
  every one of those athletes have,
• 51:33
  you know,
• 51:33
  you recognize their names a lot
• 51:35
  more than you saw them in second.
• 51:36
  You're like, damn,
• 51:37
  like they beat a bunch of,
• 51:39
  bunch of games athletes.
• 51:41
  And I mean, some of them are team athletes,
• 51:43
  but very impressive.
• 51:46
  Yeah.
• 51:48
  Yeah.
• 51:49
  And to be honest with you,
• 51:51
  one of the most surprising
• 51:51
  teams for me was on the men's side.
• 51:53
  And that was mayhem trace late chase.
• 51:55
  Yeah.
• 51:56
  My Saxon pan check that I
• 51:58
  always get ripped for takes
• 52:00
  silver with Guy who always
• 52:02
  gets dogged and Jorge, the team leader.
• 52:06
  It was great.
• 52:07
  They did awesome.
• 52:08
  Very impressed with them.
• 52:10
  Yeah.
• 52:11
  It pays to have a team
• 52:12
  athlete on your side for
• 52:15
  events like these.
• 52:16
  I mean, the worm is so crucial.
• 52:20
  I agree.
• 52:21
  And Saxon is such a grinder.
• 52:23
  Like,
• 52:23
  he'll just do whatever he needs to do.
• 52:25
  And then Guy,
• 52:29
  those cleans that everybody
• 52:30
  was struggling with, not a problem.
• 52:33
  Overhead squats, not a problem.
• 52:37
  oh yeah yeah some of that
• 52:39
  stuff was ridiculous I
• 52:40
  gotta say my danielle there
• 52:42
  at the end or maybe it
• 52:43
  wasn't even at the end just
• 52:45
  talking about competing
• 52:45
  with those girls and them
• 52:48
  like bringing a calming
• 52:50
  influence over her I
• 52:52
  thought that was great
• 52:53
  realize that she couldn't
• 52:54
  show her emotions because
• 52:57
  it would feed into them
• 53:00
  maybe that's a good good
• 53:01
  learning I think I think
• 53:02
  it's going to be huge for her
• 53:04
  Cause I thought that team
• 53:06
  was the best Danielle's
• 53:07
  looked in a couple of years.
• 53:09
  And I think she needed that confidence,
• 53:11
  right?
• 53:11
  Like she's had a, you know, uh,
• 53:13
  an off year compared to
• 53:15
  where I think she would put
• 53:16
  herself as an athlete and, you know, to,
• 53:20
  to go on top of the podium
• 53:22
  and just get that
• 53:22
  confidence to start the year,
• 53:23
  I think is going to be huge for her.
• 53:26
  Um,
• 53:27
  yeah,
• 53:28
  you could just see how happy she was and,
• 53:30
  and in her interviews,
• 53:31
  like she was like listening
• 53:33
  to her teammates and was
• 53:34
  like very engaged,
• 53:36
  like into their answers and
• 53:37
  stuff like that.
• 53:38
  Um, you know, I think,
• 53:40
  I think this will be good for,
• 53:42
  for her confidence going into the season.
• 53:45
  Yeah.
• 53:46
  All right.
• 53:46
  So we've talked about the
• 53:49
  big stories and the winners.
• 53:51
  Um, let's start with our love and hate.
• 53:53
  Okay.
• 53:58
  Do you want me to go first?
• 53:59
  I don't care.
• 54:00
  My first one is other than James and Lucy,
• 54:04
  which I made perfectly
• 54:05
  clear in the headlines
• 54:07
  Astrid tin and Enola Kai.
• 54:10
  I thought they both had amazing weekends.
• 54:14
  Enola Kai made it to the games once,
• 54:17
  but really showed that he
• 54:19
  belongs this weekend and
• 54:21
  Astrid tin coming out of nowhere.
• 54:24
  And this is,
• 54:26
  giant of a woman at five,
• 54:27
  eleven hanging with the
• 54:30
  women love that love that so much.
• 54:35
  So those those two were
• 54:36
  loves of mine for the weekend.
• 54:40
  OK,
• 54:42
  I'll say my love is that I feel like
• 54:46
  the team workouts really
• 54:49
  highlighted team and
• 54:52
  more so than just letting one person work.
• 54:55
  Like you couldn't really
• 54:57
  progress without working as a team.
• 54:59
  You couldn't get past the
• 55:00
  handstand walk if you
• 55:00
  didn't have a handstand walker.
• 55:01
  There wasn't a place for, and we see it,
• 55:04
  there wasn't a place for
• 55:05
  individuals to shine.
• 55:06
  The team that you would say
• 55:08
  was the best individuals on the floor,
• 55:10
  especially like on the men's side,
• 55:12
  didn't win.
• 55:13
  Like teamwork was crucial.
• 55:15
  I like when events make you
• 55:18
  focus on teamwork and it
• 55:19
  isn't just like a,
• 55:20
  You go water,
• 55:21
  like waterfalls of individual
• 55:23
  performances.
• 55:24
  Right.
• 55:24
  Hmm.
• 55:30
  I hated the sound problems with the,
• 55:34
  with the broadcast and like,
• 55:37
  just like during the interviews,
• 55:39
  like it was always off of
• 55:41
  what you would see.
• 55:42
  Oh.
• 55:43
  And I was just like, it was the,
• 55:45
  was the audio video ever in
• 55:47
  sync once all weekend.
• 55:51
  There's something off with
• 55:52
  the audio the whole time.
• 55:54
  It was like watching a bad kung fu movie.
• 55:56
  It was bad.
• 55:59
  I didn't even want to listen, honestly,
• 56:00
  for the most part.
• 56:03
  It was bad.
• 56:06
  Yeah, interviews, like, yeah, even, like,
• 56:08
  the long one they did with
• 56:08
  Brent beforehand.
• 56:10
  Just audio in general was terrible.
• 56:12
  You could hear background noise.
• 56:13
  You could hear – it was bad.
• 56:15
  Yeah, you could hear the wind a lot.
• 56:16
  And I don't – I mean,
• 56:17
  that might be another thing
• 56:18
  that was bad this weekend
• 56:19
  was the weather wasn't
• 56:20
  great in terms of – I think
• 56:23
  it was colder.
• 56:23
  But, yeah,
• 56:25
  you could always hear the wind and stuff.
• 56:28
  Or them – or, like, Brian talking.
• 56:31
  Like, the wrong camera would be on.
• 56:32
  You'd catch people talking on the floor.
• 56:34
  Yeah, yeah.
• 56:35
  It's like, get the camera on this,
• 56:37
  and you're, like, hearing it.
• 56:38
  Yeah.
• 56:39
  I got to say, like,
• 56:41
  props to him for trying.
• 56:42
  I know Savan has talked about this a lot,
• 56:44
  too.
• 56:45
  And I think he was trying to
• 56:47
  get the points, the lanes, the names,
• 56:50
  the scores up at the top going across.
• 56:53
  I don't know what the focus was,
• 56:54
  but as much as he has been
• 56:58
  in this space and, like,
• 57:00
  I can't for the life of me
• 57:01
  figure out what he was
• 57:02
  trying to show on the floor.
• 57:05
  Cause the, like,
• 57:07
  you should be good at like being like,
• 57:08
  all right, like camera to show,
• 57:10
  like that seemed off.
• 57:11
  And that is what was boggling my mind.
• 57:14
  I don't know what they were trying to show,
• 57:15
  what,
• 57:16
  what story they were trying to tell
• 57:17
  on the floor.
• 57:18
  Because I think that that's where some,
• 57:21
  like where he could be good
• 57:23
  at making this progress is
• 57:25
  showing the story on the floor and, and,
• 57:28
  I don't know where that went
• 57:29
  wrong this weekend.
• 57:30
  It was bad.
• 57:30
  Like I could hardly follow.
• 57:31
  I'm like,
• 57:32
  why are we showing this like normal?
• 57:34
  It was like a typical
• 57:35
  CrossFit games where I'm like,
• 57:36
  get off of that person back out.
• 57:39
  Like we can't even see what's going on.
• 57:40
  It was very frustrating.
• 57:42
  Or like you'd start filming
• 57:43
  also the commercial for
• 57:44
  like two or three seconds, which go on.
• 57:46
  And you're like,
• 57:47
  this is the middle of the
• 57:48
  event right now.
• 57:48
  Why is there like a commercial?
• 57:50
  Or sometimes you'd be watching.
• 57:51
  All of a sudden the camera
• 57:52
  starts turning upside down.
• 57:53
  And you're like, like what?
• 57:54
  And then.
• 57:54
  Yeah.
• 57:59
  But it was free.
• 58:01
  I like that it's free.
• 58:03
  Let's get the broadcast out of the way.
• 58:05
  Okay.
• 58:06
  Because it's here.
• 58:07
  Yes.
• 58:08
  So here's my thing.
• 58:09
  When you're doing a broadcast,
• 58:10
  you have to decide what is
• 58:12
  most important.
• 58:13
  What is most important to
• 58:15
  get to the audience?
• 58:16
  And I think what they did is they said...
• 58:18
  This is all the stuff we
• 58:19
  want to improve and make right.
• 58:22
  And by trying to do it all,
• 58:25
  it was all at a D level
• 58:27
  instead of having a couple
• 58:28
  things that were at an A
• 58:29
  level and a couple things
• 58:31
  that were at a C and a
• 58:32
  couple things that were at an F. So bad.
• 58:36
  And the commercials,
• 58:37
  they weren't commercials.
• 58:39
  They were, what,
• 58:40
  one commercial and then the
• 58:41
  rest were just showing the
• 58:43
  names of the companies.
• 58:44
  Yeah.
• 58:45
  Sponsors over and over again.
• 58:46
  They weren't ads.
• 58:49
  All that dead time sitting
• 58:50
  there where they could run
• 58:52
  ads and maybe charge people.
• 58:55
  There was, I know the one day I looked,
• 58:57
  it was one hundred and
• 58:58
  thirty six thousand people were watching.
• 59:01
  Why couldn't you pay,
• 59:03
  get paid for some of those ad spaces?
• 59:06
  But if the product is going to be that bad,
• 59:08
  nobody's going to buy.
• 59:11
  The one highlight I will say
• 59:13
  is event one for the individuals,
• 59:16
  the drone going up the
• 59:17
  beach with the athletes was
• 59:19
  very well done.
• 59:21
  They started off with a bang,
• 59:23
  set the bar high for me,
• 59:25
  and then totally flopped on
• 59:26
  it right after.
• 59:29
  Because when they got into the arena,
• 59:30
  some of the footage had sound.
• 59:33
  Some didn't have sound.
• 59:35
  It just went to... Then
• 59:36
  you'd pick up Bill and
• 59:37
  Chase in the mid-conversation.
• 59:40
  Then you'd pick up the
• 59:41
  direction from Brian behind
• 59:43
  the scenes that nobody needs to hear.
• 59:46
  Then it was just...
• 59:49
  A debacle.
• 59:50
  And I hate it.
• 59:51
  I hate the fact that it was
• 59:52
  a debacle because it's what
• 59:54
  CrossFit needs.
• 59:56
  We can't waste all of our
• 59:58
  budget on Hampton roads or
• 1:00:01
  Hamilton roads or whatever
• 1:00:02
  the hell it is and pay that
• 1:00:04
  exorbitant amount of money
• 1:00:05
  to broadcast an event and,
• 1:00:08
  or we'll not get to see
• 1:00:09
  anything throughout the year.
• 1:00:10
  Right.
• 1:00:12
  we need these things to work.
• 1:00:14
  We need to figure this stuff out.
• 1:00:16
  And I think Hiller put it
• 1:00:18
  best by saying Brian bit
• 1:00:20
  off more than he could chew.
• 1:00:24
  Yeah.
• 1:00:24
  Did Hiller jump in and help?
• 1:00:26
  No, no, no, no.
• 1:00:31
  And then the fact that the,
• 1:00:33
  the stream cut off before
• 1:00:35
  we even knew who won the
• 1:00:36
  women's team event, that was a travesty.
• 1:00:41
  Yeah.
• 1:00:43
  it was rough, man.
• 1:00:45
  It was hard to stay engaged.
• 1:00:46
  It was honestly hard to want
• 1:00:47
  to even watch it.
• 1:00:50
  I do agree here.
• 1:00:51
  I think like we get, we could say that,
• 1:00:53
  you know,
• 1:00:54
  the broadcast can get
• 1:00:54
  improvements and stuff like that,
• 1:00:55
  but I don't think that
• 1:00:57
  people need to like personally attack, um,
• 1:00:59
  Brian friend.
• 1:01:00
  Like he obviously is doing
• 1:01:01
  his best and we can have some,
• 1:01:02
  some criticism and some, some feedback,
• 1:01:04
  but you don't have to go so personal and,
• 1:01:07
  um,
• 1:01:09
  Yeah.
• 1:01:09
  Yeah.
• 1:01:09
  Like,
• 1:01:10
  I think there's a respect factor that
• 1:01:12
  needs to be in a lot of
• 1:01:13
  these comments that we see online,
• 1:01:16
  not just during the streams, but in posts,
• 1:01:20
  a bunch of things.
• 1:01:21
  I think there's a lot of
• 1:01:22
  lack of respect and
• 1:01:23
  sometimes certain platforms
• 1:01:25
  are given for a bunch of hate.
• 1:01:27
  Yeah.
• 1:01:28
  I don't like that.
• 1:01:29
  Jay Birch puts it the best.
• 1:01:31
  How do you eat an elephant?
• 1:01:32
  One bite at a time.
• 1:01:34
  The bites were too big.
• 1:01:36
  Yes.
• 1:01:37
  Yeah, I am not shitting on Brian.
• 1:01:40
  That undertaking had to be massive.
• 1:01:42
  Huge.
• 1:01:43
  Massive.
• 1:01:44
  I want it to work so that we
• 1:01:46
  can figure out how to do
• 1:01:48
  this and take it to Legends,
• 1:01:50
  take it to Masters CrossFit Games,
• 1:01:53
  take it to Crash, take it to Metcon Rush,
• 1:01:56
  so that we can see more of
• 1:01:57
  these really cool events
• 1:01:59
  that go on across the country.
• 1:02:02
  We need more and more of that.
• 1:02:05
  And he does do a good job in
• 1:02:07
  the events that he
• 1:02:08
  showcases with Patrick.
• 1:02:11
  They go all over and they do
• 1:02:12
  different events,
• 1:02:13
  and some of them are done so well.
• 1:02:17
  This one was just a little
• 1:02:18
  bit of a miss for the sound,
• 1:02:22
  the timing of things.
• 1:02:24
  But the expensive broadcast
• 1:02:25
  can't do the reps right.
• 1:02:27
  So to think that that should
• 1:02:29
  be a priority in your first time out,
• 1:02:32
  While I applaud that you wanted to do that,
• 1:02:34
  it was never correct.
• 1:02:38
  The rep counter on the side.
• 1:02:39
  Yeah, there was some that were close.
• 1:02:41
  It wasn't the worst.
• 1:02:43
  I'd rather see that than not have it.
• 1:02:47
  But if you have to choose
• 1:02:48
  what... I would rather have
• 1:02:50
  good pictures and good sound.
• 1:02:53
  Then when you get that set...
• 1:02:56
  up well then move to the rep
• 1:02:58
  counters then move to the
• 1:03:01
  what do you what do you
• 1:03:02
  consider good pictures
• 1:03:03
  because I honestly feel
• 1:03:04
  like if if it's going to be
• 1:03:07
  this like zooming in on the
• 1:03:09
  front two teams and that
• 1:03:11
  shit all the time I don't
• 1:03:13
  consider that good picture
• 1:03:14
  I didn't say we got that I
• 1:03:16
  saying that that should
• 1:03:17
  have been the priority yeah
• 1:03:19
  but what I'm asking is what like
• 1:03:23
  For me,
• 1:03:24
  I'd rather just see the wide angle shot,
• 1:03:26
  still shot, was better for me.
• 1:03:29
  I would have much rather.
• 1:03:31
  I actually had, in my loves,
• 1:03:34
  I did like the wide angle
• 1:03:36
  from above the stands.
• 1:03:39
  You could actually see all
• 1:03:40
  the teams across.
• 1:03:42
  I actually liked that shot during the day.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, it got really hard.
• 1:03:46
  I agree.
• 1:03:46
  It was hard at night.
• 1:03:48
  Once it got to the flashing
• 1:03:49
  lights and the Wadapalooza style,
• 1:03:52
  you could no longer see anything.
• 1:03:56
  I almost feel like if you
• 1:03:59
  need to focus on the race
• 1:04:01
  on the floor and you're
• 1:04:02
  trying to do the rep counter on the side,
• 1:04:05
  I'd almost rather be that
• 1:04:08
  panned out wide shot and
• 1:04:10
  everyone can watch the
• 1:04:11
  floor and they can see
• 1:04:12
  whatever team they want to see and
• 1:04:16
  the broadcast will just be
• 1:04:17
  talking about what's
• 1:04:18
  happening on the floor and
• 1:04:19
  your eyes can go to which
• 1:04:20
  lane you want to watch.
• 1:04:21
  I hate when they push,
• 1:04:23
  especially when they push
• 1:04:24
  me out of something when,
• 1:04:24
  and the next thing you know,
• 1:04:25
  this team is ahead and
• 1:04:27
  nobody got to see what happened.
• 1:04:29
  Even the broadcast is sometimes it's like,
• 1:04:31
  I don't like,
• 1:04:32
  I know what you chase Bill
• 1:04:33
  and chase were trying to like,
• 1:04:35
  they almost went radio broadcast.
• 1:04:37
  Like they were telling the
• 1:04:37
  story on the floor more
• 1:04:38
  than what cameras were doing.
• 1:04:40
  But man, I'm like,
• 1:04:43
  That's where I'm asking, like,
• 1:04:44
  what do you think is a good picture?
• 1:04:46
  Because I truly thought
• 1:04:48
  Brian would have a better idea of that.
• 1:04:51
  And now I'm thinking back,
• 1:04:54
  maybe he doesn't.
• 1:04:54
  Like,
• 1:04:54
  maybe that's what he wants to do is
• 1:04:56
  always zoom in on these –
• 1:04:58
  He wants to have people on the floor.
• 1:04:59
  He wants to get in.
• 1:05:00
  He wants to get the floor
• 1:05:01
  race on the floor between
• 1:05:02
  the top two teams.
• 1:05:02
  All of this rumor and speculation.
• 1:05:04
  I do not have confirmation,
• 1:05:06
  but I heard that some of
• 1:05:07
  the cameras went down.
• 1:05:09
  They had to go to iPhones.
• 1:05:11
  They had to change on the fly.
• 1:05:15
  I'm not giving them excuses,
• 1:05:16
  but I'm like sometimes just
• 1:05:18
  getting a stable picture up
• 1:05:21
  of something you just have to do.
• 1:05:24
  Yes.
• 1:05:25
  Like my bar is really low
• 1:05:26
  for stable picture right now.
• 1:05:30
  I agree.
• 1:05:32
  That wide angle one.
• 1:05:33
  Yeah.
• 1:05:33
  And there could be a lot of
• 1:05:34
  factors that we don't know, obviously,
• 1:05:36
  right?
• 1:05:36
  Like there could be, you know,
• 1:05:37
  it's not just Brian, you know,
• 1:05:39
  there's a lot of people
• 1:05:40
  involved behind the scenes
• 1:05:41
  that some of the orders may
• 1:05:43
  have gone miss, like whatever happened,
• 1:05:45
  like it's,
• 1:05:45
  it's still a collective team
• 1:05:47
  with whatever, you know,
• 1:05:49
  whoever was involved with
• 1:05:50
  all of it though.
• 1:05:51
  But I will say this,
• 1:05:52
  a lot of people are saying like,
• 1:05:54
  this is the worst water
• 1:05:55
  Palouse has ever been.
• 1:05:57
  They have very short memories.
• 1:06:00
  When they were on that pay channel,
• 1:06:04
  Flow Elite, the coverage was atrocious.
• 1:06:09
  And you had to pay for it too.
• 1:06:10
  Right.
• 1:06:10
  And it was a still camera
• 1:06:12
  from a corner up above on a
• 1:06:15
  thirty lane field that you
• 1:06:17
  couldn't even see anybody
• 1:06:18
  past the first ten rows.
• 1:06:22
  It was awful.
• 1:06:24
  And you paid for it.
• 1:06:25
  And not cheap, like fifty bucks.
• 1:06:28
  Yes.
• 1:06:28
  Because you go from the last
• 1:06:30
  major event that people
• 1:06:31
  watched was probably the
• 1:06:32
  Rogue Invitational.
• 1:06:33
  Less people watched Dubai
• 1:06:35
  and other things.
• 1:06:36
  So the next thing that
• 1:06:36
  people watch after Rogues is this one.
• 1:06:40
  So it's definitely a lower
• 1:06:42
  tier for the broadcast than...
• 1:06:44
  Rogue, which is the highest one.
• 1:06:47
  But like Vi said,
• 1:06:48
  I hope that he can be given
• 1:06:49
  another chance at some point.
• 1:06:51
  He does do a really good job
• 1:06:53
  at some of the other comps.
• 1:06:54
  So for whatever reason,
• 1:06:56
  maybe this one was a little
• 1:06:57
  bit too big for the help
• 1:07:00
  that maybe he had to do it.
• 1:07:02
  I think he needed more
• 1:07:03
  people or people on the
• 1:07:05
  same page a little bit more.
• 1:07:09
  He has done great stuff.
• 1:07:11
  I think the floor is too big
• 1:07:13
  at Wadapalooza.
• 1:07:14
  It is huge.
• 1:07:15
  Like that's the thing.
• 1:07:16
  The conference has been at or what?
• 1:07:18
  Twenty lanes at most.
• 1:07:21
  It's more manageable.
• 1:07:22
  It's probably easier to tell that story.
• 1:07:23
  Or the people we care about
• 1:07:25
  most are in this group of lanes.
• 1:07:29
  You know what I mean?
• 1:07:30
  Like Wadapalooza is pretty deep.
• 1:07:33
  That women's field was deep.
• 1:07:35
  You know,
• 1:07:35
  I saw Denise say I wanted to see
• 1:07:37
  the daughters more.
• 1:07:38
  A lot of people couldn't get
• 1:07:39
  in the top heat.
• 1:07:40
  Nope.
• 1:07:42
  The reason you didn't even
• 1:07:43
  see him in the second, like in the second,
• 1:07:46
  he, you didn't even get to see him.
• 1:07:47
  Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  I water Palooza was probably
• 1:07:51
  not the first one with a
• 1:07:54
  major production and
• 1:07:55
  announcers and all of that,
• 1:07:57
  that he should have attempted.
• 1:07:58
  I agree.
• 1:08:01
  New floors, new stages.
• 1:08:03
  Like that's the thing.
• 1:08:04
  You don't even know what
• 1:08:04
  you're getting into really.
• 1:08:06
  That's a good point too, right?
• 1:08:08
  There's no familiarity.
• 1:08:12
  That's the one.
• 1:08:14
  With this location, these floors,
• 1:08:16
  versus had he seen it done,
• 1:08:18
  let's say years,
• 1:08:20
  there's probably a smoother
• 1:08:22
  transition to him doing it
• 1:08:25
  than a new location and everything.
• 1:08:28
  I think that was the part that sucked.
• 1:08:30
  Other than the drone with
• 1:08:31
  the athletes up the beach,
• 1:08:33
  we got no idea of what the
• 1:08:35
  new venue looked like.
• 1:08:39
  from the production.
• 1:08:41
  There was no B-roll.
• 1:08:42
  There was no like, hey,
• 1:08:44
  let's go on a tour of the grounds.
• 1:08:47
  Let's take you guys to
• 1:08:48
  Vendor Village during some of the breaks,
• 1:08:51
  right?
• 1:08:52
  That would have been cool
• 1:08:53
  actually to see what it looked like.
• 1:08:54
  Because if you've never been
• 1:08:56
  to a Vendor Village at Guadalupalooza,
• 1:09:00
  it is bigger than the games.
• 1:09:02
  Yeah.
• 1:09:03
  Yeah.
• 1:09:04
  I feel like Gabe with paper
• 1:09:06
  street did a walkthrough for seven on,
• 1:09:09
  and that was helpful.
• 1:09:10
  It was, but he's not the production of the,
• 1:09:12
  no, I know.
• 1:09:13
  It should have been a
• 1:09:14
  probably Brian's channel
• 1:09:16
  the day before should have
• 1:09:17
  been a start or Thursday
• 1:09:18
  morning or something.
• 1:09:20
  Yeah.
• 1:09:20
  Anytime of those big gaps between events.
• 1:09:23
  Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  Well,
• 1:09:25
  he's trying to get his life together
• 1:09:26
  at that point.
• 1:09:29
  So let's leave it at this.
• 1:09:32
  We want it to succeed.
• 1:09:34
  We don't want it to be a
• 1:09:35
  monopoly that is held over
• 1:09:38
  CrossFit forever and we
• 1:09:40
  never can afford the production.
• 1:09:43
  Hopefully he gets another shot.
• 1:09:45
  Hopefully others get other shots.
• 1:09:51
  And we'll leave it at that
• 1:09:52
  and we'll do some more love
• 1:09:53
  and hate because there's a
• 1:09:54
  couple more news items,
• 1:09:55
  but I want to go to some
• 1:09:57
  more love and hate.
• 1:10:01
  So one thing,
• 1:10:02
  and this is kind of broadcast.
• 1:10:04
  I am ready.
• 1:10:05
  Like, personally,
• 1:10:06
  I like Bill and I like Chase.
• 1:10:09
  Bill Grundler is one of my
• 1:10:10
  favorite people in the whole wide world.
• 1:10:13
  I met him in two thousand thirteen,
• 1:10:15
  had lunch with him and and
• 1:10:17
  have he's been we've been
• 1:10:18
  friendly ever since.
• 1:10:21
  But we don't have a color
• 1:10:22
  commentator that has played this sport.
• 1:10:26
  In the last ten years.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah.
• 1:10:32
  I mean, I've been enjoying Lucy doing it.
• 1:10:34
  Lucy's awesome at doing it.
• 1:10:36
  Right.
• 1:10:37
  But it's time.
• 1:10:38
  It's time to develop some other talent.
• 1:10:40
  I agree.
• 1:10:42
  There are a ton of athletes
• 1:10:45
  who have played at a high
• 1:10:46
  level that can give a more
• 1:10:49
  recent perspective as to
• 1:10:50
  the way the sport runs and
• 1:10:52
  the way the athlete feels.
• 1:10:54
  It's a different game now
• 1:10:56
  than it was then.
• 1:10:57
  Or just certain strategies.
• 1:10:59
  Sometimes they would say
• 1:11:00
  certain strategies, and I'm like,
• 1:11:01
  no one's going unbroken.
• 1:11:02
  Like, no.
• 1:11:03
  And then they'd be like,
• 1:11:04
  why is Jack Farlow doing a squat clean?
• 1:11:07
  Well,
• 1:11:07
  maybe because he did all the freaking
• 1:11:09
  cleans for his team.
• 1:11:10
  He's like, why is he squat cleaning?
• 1:11:11
  He should be able to have power.
• 1:11:12
  Well, no, he's literally gassed right now.
• 1:11:15
  He's doing every single one
• 1:11:16
  of the power cleans.
• 1:11:18
  Like you guys are delusional.
• 1:11:19
  If you think that you can just go, like,
• 1:11:21
  not everyone has the same.
• 1:11:22
  Some people are squat,
• 1:11:23
  better squatters than power.
• 1:11:24
  Yeah.
• 1:11:25
  Like I, my power clean isn't great.
• 1:11:27
  My squat clean is good.
• 1:11:28
  Like I just, I'll use my legs if I can,
• 1:11:31
  especially as you get fatigued.
• 1:11:32
  Like some,
• 1:11:33
  sometimes some of the strategies
• 1:11:34
  that they give, I'm like, no, no,
• 1:11:38
  When I see names in the chat,
• 1:11:40
  but you have to give people
• 1:11:42
  the opportunity to see if
• 1:11:43
  they're good on TV or not.
• 1:11:44
  Some people are good at it.
• 1:11:46
  Some people aren't.
• 1:11:46
  It doesn't matter how good
• 1:11:47
  they were on the floor.
• 1:11:49
  They have to be good discussing it.
• 1:11:52
  And I love like hearing Josh
• 1:11:54
  Bridges on the Rogue alternate broadcast.
• 1:11:58
  Yeah.
• 1:11:59
  And he can beat it up through what,
• 1:12:00
  sixteen or seventeen.
• 1:12:02
  At least that's a little bit more recent.
• 1:12:05
  There still is some younger
• 1:12:06
  talent out there that we
• 1:12:08
  can grab and put in the
• 1:12:09
  booth like they did with
• 1:12:10
  Lucy because Lucy knocked
• 1:12:12
  it out of the park.
• 1:12:13
  Yeah.
• 1:12:13
  And she really gave great
• 1:12:15
  perspective on the female
• 1:12:16
  paces and was very
• 1:12:17
  knowledgeable on the men's
• 1:12:18
  side of things.
• 1:12:18
  And yeah, I thought that, yeah,
• 1:12:22
  Lucy's great.
• 1:12:23
  Good addition.
• 1:12:25
  Denise has been watching
• 1:12:26
  some Justin Medeiros videos.
• 1:12:27
  I think he has a future after retiring.
• 1:12:29
  I would not have said that
• 1:12:30
  until the last three weeks.
• 1:12:32
  So that's,
• 1:12:34
  that's a good segue into my love was the,
• 1:12:38
  um, go odd verse.
• 1:12:40
  Uh, Jay Birch says, Carolyn,
• 1:12:41
  you should go.
• 1:12:42
  I don't disagree.
• 1:12:47
  Go ahead, Jamie.
• 1:12:48
  So my love is the go odd
• 1:12:50
  versus the PJs and the Dalen,
• 1:12:53
  Justin Hopper podcast that
• 1:12:57
  they've been doing, especially the night,
• 1:13:01
  the nights of between the cops.
• 1:13:03
  Like my,
• 1:13:05
  did you see the last one after
• 1:13:06
  with Pat final with Pat was hands down.
• 1:13:09
  My favorite moment of the whole weekend.
• 1:13:12
  It was incredible.
• 1:13:14
  Have you seen it?
• 1:13:14
  Scott?
• 1:13:15
  I've started watching it.
• 1:13:17
  I've not finished it.
• 1:13:17
  Oh, you need to finish it.
• 1:13:18
  The end with Pat.
• 1:13:19
  Pat goes off the rails.
• 1:13:21
  He's like, it's my podcast now.
• 1:13:26
  The thing is, like,
• 1:13:28
  Pat is literally so funny.
• 1:13:30
  He's witty.
• 1:13:31
  Like,
• 1:13:32
  people in the comments are always
• 1:13:33
  hard on him because of the
• 1:13:36
  PFAA and all of that.
• 1:13:40
  he is like one of the most
• 1:13:42
  well-liked athletes by any
• 1:13:43
  of the athletes.
• 1:13:44
  Oh yeah.
• 1:13:45
  And he's, he's funny.
• 1:13:46
  He's, he's fit.
• 1:13:47
  He's laid back.
• 1:13:49
  You know,
• 1:13:49
  he has a great balance in his life.
• 1:13:52
  Like I,
• 1:13:53
  I just always like hearing Pat talk.
• 1:13:55
  He's very intelligent,
• 1:13:57
  super knowledgeable.
• 1:13:58
  Like I love that podcast.
• 1:13:59
  I was listening to it on my
• 1:14:01
  way to work and on the way home.
• 1:14:03
  And I was like, this is awesome.
• 1:14:04
  I was laughing so much.
• 1:14:06
  Dalen said he's going to cry when Pat.
• 1:14:08
  Yeah.
• 1:14:09
  Like, and I think he's honest.
• 1:14:12
  I think a lot of these young
• 1:14:14
  athletes have looked up to Pat, right?
• 1:14:16
  Like, you know, just like the way that,
• 1:14:18
  you know,
• 1:14:19
  the daughters influence such a
• 1:14:20
  generation of athletes, right?
• 1:14:22
  Like these, these Pat Vellner's,
• 1:14:24
  these Brent Fikowski's like,
• 1:14:25
  they've been around for so long.
• 1:14:27
  And these younger athletes
• 1:14:29
  that have looked up for
• 1:14:30
  them and probably have had
• 1:14:32
  great relationships in the background of,
• 1:14:33
  of events.
• 1:14:34
  Like,
• 1:14:35
  you know, you're,
• 1:14:35
  you're going to miss those
• 1:14:36
  friendships in and, uh,
• 1:14:39
  those figures in the sport for sure.
• 1:14:41
  What's cool is you had the
• 1:14:42
  three up and comers ish Hopper,
• 1:14:45
  Madaris and pepper with Willie,
• 1:14:49
  Pat and Adler, the older, the old timers.
• 1:14:52
  And it,
• 1:14:54
  I did like that dynamic of the old
• 1:14:57
  wise men and the young upstarts.
• 1:14:59
  Right.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah.
• 1:15:01
  Um,
• 1:15:03
  And Carolyn said it three
• 1:15:04
  weeks ago when this started.
• 1:15:06
  We need more of this in the
• 1:15:08
  CrossFit space.
• 1:15:10
  Athletes on athletes.
• 1:15:12
  Like,
• 1:15:12
  just the athletes hanging out and
• 1:15:13
  doing podcasts and not being interviewed.
• 1:15:17
  Just telling stories.
• 1:15:20
  But that's what's great
• 1:15:21
  about good color analysts.
• 1:15:24
  And that's what we're missing.
• 1:15:25
  We've heard all the bill stories, right?
• 1:15:27
  Like it's time to get some
• 1:15:30
  of the young people up that talk about,
• 1:15:32
  Hey,
• 1:15:33
  when I was competing against Pat Vellner,
• 1:15:35
  he would whisper this in my
• 1:15:36
  ear right before we go on
• 1:15:37
  the floor or like,
• 1:15:39
  those are the things that
• 1:15:40
  good color analyst does.
• 1:15:43
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:15:45
  I think Justin could have a future.
• 1:15:48
  Justin does a great job of
• 1:15:49
  leading those podcasts and
• 1:15:50
  keeping them on track.
• 1:15:51
  I just hope the more he does this,
• 1:15:53
  he gets the likes down a little bit.
• 1:15:56
  Because if he can finesse that,
• 1:15:58
  he's going to be incredible.
• 1:16:00
  Oh, what he says the word like.
• 1:16:01
  Gotcha.
• 1:16:02
  Yes, he's very...
• 1:16:04
  But he's really coming out of his shell,
• 1:16:08
  I find,
• 1:16:09
  in the recent podcast and stuff
• 1:16:10
  like that.
• 1:16:11
  That's really made him even more likable.
• 1:16:15
  Because I think a lot of
• 1:16:16
  people just saw him as a
• 1:16:17
  pretty quiet guy and stuff.
• 1:16:19
  But when he's taking control
• 1:16:20
  of these conversations, you're like, wow,
• 1:16:22
  he's way more outgoing and personal.
• 1:16:29
  Yeah.
• 1:16:32
  I've enjoyed those podcasts for sure.
• 1:16:35
  OK, I like.
• 1:16:38
  I like the sandbox event
• 1:16:40
  where they're bringing
• 1:16:41
  stuff back and forth.
• 1:16:43
  I thought there was a lot of
• 1:16:44
  strategy involved.
• 1:16:45
  We haven't seen an event
• 1:16:46
  like that in a bit, like the one with the,
• 1:16:48
  I don't know,
• 1:16:50
  whether it was a team event
• 1:16:51
  or the individual one.
• 1:16:54
  Some people lost some races
• 1:16:55
  on some of the strategies,
• 1:16:56
  picking up two of the blocks versus one,
• 1:16:59
  the teams as well.
• 1:17:00
  You had one person here.
• 1:17:01
  There was a lot of strategy
• 1:17:03
  involved in that sandbox event.
• 1:17:05
  Um, that made it very interesting.
• 1:17:07
  Like as much as I liked the
• 1:17:08
  sandbox for that one, for the sleds,
• 1:17:10
  I wasn't as, um,
• 1:17:13
  fond of the sandbox because a sleds isn't,
• 1:17:16
  isn't implement.
• 1:17:17
  That's extremely hard to put
• 1:17:21
  in competition.
• 1:17:22
  You know, it's a friction based, um,
• 1:17:27
  thing.
• 1:17:27
  So depending on your lane,
• 1:17:30
  if you had ups down, like it just changed,
• 1:17:32
  um,
• 1:17:33
  the scores, right?
• 1:17:34
  Like it can definitely affect.
• 1:17:36
  It's not,
• 1:17:37
  it's not an even playing ground
• 1:17:38
  from lane to lane,
• 1:17:39
  but I did like the sandbox.
• 1:17:42
  I don't know if in the future years,
• 1:17:44
  they're going to run out of
• 1:17:44
  like ideas of things to do with it.
• 1:17:47
  It's going to be at the same
• 1:17:48
  type of moments always in that one,
• 1:17:49
  but I really enjoyed the
• 1:17:51
  different moving of the stuff.
• 1:17:55
  I thought that that was cool.
• 1:17:57
  Yeah, I have very similar to that.
• 1:17:59
  The moving of equipment this
• 1:18:01
  weekend made the story,
• 1:18:04
  had broadcast been great at showing it,
• 1:18:06
  easier to see.
• 1:18:07
  I really like there was a
• 1:18:08
  lot of moving on the floor.
• 1:18:11
  moving equipment, just grunt work.
• 1:18:13
  Yeah.
• 1:18:14
  Um, it made,
• 1:18:15
  it made it not just like
• 1:18:16
  finish these three reps and you're done.
• 1:18:18
  Like usually there was
• 1:18:19
  something to get you done or, you know,
• 1:18:21
  like Hopper tripping over his block,
• 1:18:23
  like stuff like that.
• 1:18:23
  There was like some strategy
• 1:18:25
  in a lot of the events.
• 1:18:26
  And I, I liked that.
• 1:18:28
  I loved the sandbox in general.
• 1:18:31
  And I noticed people aren't, well,
• 1:18:33
  it was seriously fresh
• 1:18:34
  coast and people were not ready for it.
• 1:18:37
  Like the boys talked about the sand.
• 1:18:40
  They're like, well,
• 1:18:40
  we've all done a worm before,
• 1:18:41
  but we've never done a worm in the sand.
• 1:18:44
  And like they were talking
• 1:18:44
  about how their neck was raw.
• 1:18:46
  And I was like, yup.
• 1:18:47
  I mean, I've done that.
• 1:18:49
  Yeah.
• 1:18:50
  Done a worm on the sand.
• 1:18:51
  And yeah, it's a total game changer.
• 1:18:53
  And yeah, you will have it in your shoes,
• 1:18:56
  socks, hair for another month, guys.
• 1:19:00
  So have fun.
• 1:19:01
  I have a little bit of a rebuttal to that.
• 1:19:03
  But before I do that, Denise says,
• 1:19:05
  did they say Jason fell
• 1:19:06
  over the boxes in the sandbox?
• 1:19:09
  Jason says he fell over the boxes.
• 1:19:12
  Dallin contends it was flat
• 1:19:13
  land that he tripped over in the sandbox.
• 1:19:17
  That is the bone of contention.
• 1:19:18
  Yeah.
• 1:19:20
  And apparently there is
• 1:19:22
  video that it was flat land
• 1:19:24
  and not over the boxes.
• 1:19:27
  However,
• 1:19:29
  It was hard to see on a
• 1:19:30
  phone held up to the camera.
• 1:19:32
  Okay.
• 1:19:33
  But my rebuttal is I loved
• 1:19:36
  the individual event bench
• 1:19:38
  press where they had to
• 1:19:40
  move the stuff through each thing.
• 1:19:41
  Thought that was great.
• 1:19:43
  Love the team event where
• 1:19:45
  you had to move the bricks and the sled.
• 1:19:51
  Other than that, get rid of the sandbox.
• 1:19:53
  I'm done.
• 1:19:53
  What?
• 1:19:54
  done with it no it's it's
• 1:19:57
  trying to find gimmicky
• 1:19:58
  things to do in the sand
• 1:20:00
  and it was overused it
• 1:20:02
  should not have been half
• 1:20:03
  the events actually it's
• 1:20:06
  more than half the events
• 1:20:07
  because in the first event
• 1:20:08
  you had to run in the sand
• 1:20:10
  and then come back into the
• 1:20:11
  flat thing way too much
• 1:20:12
  sand it's okay to have some
• 1:20:15
  sand I don't want half the
• 1:20:16
  event to be sand now you're
• 1:20:18
  just becoming gimmicky if I
• 1:20:20
  want to see that I'll go up
• 1:20:21
  to michigan and watch fresh coast
• 1:20:23
  I don't think gimmicky is the right word,
• 1:20:25
  but I know what you mean.
• 1:20:27
  But how close are we to gimmicky?
• 1:20:29
  Because there's only so much
• 1:20:30
  you can do in the sand.
• 1:20:31
  Yeah,
• 1:20:32
  we do pretty much everything in the sand.
• 1:20:35
  We've done it.
• 1:20:36
  And everybody will bitch
• 1:20:37
  that it's not fair because
• 1:20:38
  the sand isn't even.
• 1:20:42
  There's actually never
• 1:20:43
  really been complaints
• 1:20:43
  about that at Fresh Coast.
• 1:20:45
  So maybe Wadapalooza could
• 1:20:47
  look at some Fresh Coast
• 1:20:48
  events and get some ideas.
• 1:20:51
  Please.
• 1:20:54
  The only thing I would say
• 1:20:55
  don't do is ride a bike
• 1:20:56
  because they did that one
• 1:20:58
  year and it was a total disaster.
• 1:21:01
  Ride a bike in the sand?
• 1:21:02
  It was awful.
• 1:21:04
  I didn't even get to compete that year.
• 1:21:06
  Like an eco bike?
• 1:21:08
  It was a big like,
• 1:21:09
  it'd be like what you would
• 1:21:10
  envision like a fat snow tire.
• 1:21:13
  I don't even know how to.
• 1:21:14
  No, yeah,
• 1:21:14
  you physically had to ride a bike
• 1:21:16
  down the beach.
• 1:21:18
  It didn't work.
• 1:21:20
  Denise is telling me life isn't fair.
• 1:21:23
  I don't care if it's fair.
• 1:21:24
  Actually,
• 1:21:24
  I didn't mind the sled event at
• 1:21:26
  all this year.
• 1:21:27
  I didn't care that it was
• 1:21:28
  not every lane was the same.
• 1:21:30
  It's not the games.
• 1:21:31
  It's just a fun event in Miami.
• 1:21:35
  I don't know.
• 1:21:35
  There's so many dollars on the line.
• 1:21:37
  I want to make sure that it's pretty fair.
• 1:21:42
  I think there's too much
• 1:21:43
  money on the line.
• 1:21:44
  If it was just a local comp.
• 1:21:46
  Flopping and flipping.
• 1:21:49
  Still want
• 1:21:52
  Six events,
• 1:21:52
  one of them should not be
• 1:21:53
  dependent on equipment.
• 1:21:56
  I don't know.
• 1:21:58
  Three and a half of them
• 1:21:59
  shouldn't be dependent on sand.
• 1:22:00
  Oh, stop.
• 1:22:01
  It's doable.
• 1:22:03
  That's all I'm saying.
• 1:22:05
  I'm not saying get rid of it.
• 1:22:07
  I'm saying just use it where it's cool.
• 1:22:12
  Don't feel you have to use it.
• 1:22:13
  Okay.
• 1:22:17
  All right.
• 1:22:17
  Anybody else got something?
• 1:22:18
  Well...
• 1:22:19
  In that same vein,
• 1:22:21
  I feel like so they must
• 1:22:22
  have listened to you
• 1:22:23
  because they got rid of
• 1:22:24
  running on the sand and
• 1:22:25
  everyone else had to run.
• 1:22:26
  No one else got to run on the sand.
• 1:22:28
  They had to run on runners.
• 1:22:30
  That was team and individuals.
• 1:22:32
  It was a different event.
• 1:22:34
  No, it wasn't.
• 1:22:34
  It was the same thing.
• 1:22:35
  No, it wasn't.
• 1:22:39
  The air runners were for team only.
• 1:22:43
  Yeah.
• 1:22:46
  Oh, for the...
• 1:22:47
  The roll run and double
• 1:22:50
  under one with the dumbbell one.
• 1:22:52
  Okay.
• 1:22:52
  So it's only that three, three, three,
• 1:22:54
  four event.
• 1:22:55
  Yeah.
• 1:22:56
  That they had the runners.
• 1:22:57
  Cause I was under the
• 1:22:59
  impression that they like
• 1:23:00
  stopped running on the sand
• 1:23:03
  in for the other brackets for that event.
• 1:23:07
  The box step over event.
• 1:23:10
  No, it would, they kept it for the other.
• 1:23:12
  All right.
• 1:23:16
  And Sherry, it was only one,
• 1:23:18
  one runner was on a five pound plate.
• 1:23:20
  And Lucy said that it was
• 1:23:21
  her team and they ended up
• 1:23:23
  winning the event.
• 1:23:23
  So maybe it made the treadmill go faster.
• 1:23:32
  Yeah.
• 1:23:32
  But why didn't they run on the sand?
• 1:23:34
  Like that,
• 1:23:35
  that didn't make sense to me at all.
• 1:23:36
  Like in the team,
• 1:23:38
  why not run out on the sand?
• 1:23:42
  Hard to keep track.
• 1:23:43
  I don't know.
• 1:23:43
  Yeah.
• 1:23:44
  Yeah.
• 1:23:46
  There's a lot more involved
• 1:23:47
  in teams with all the
• 1:23:48
  athletes on the floor.
• 1:23:49
  It's just hard to, I don't know,
• 1:23:52
  maybe find yourself in stuff.
• 1:23:53
  Yeah, I can see that.
• 1:24:02
  Okay.
• 1:24:03
  I have a bench, but... Yeah, go ahead.
• 1:24:08
  My other...
• 1:24:11
  Not like was not again.
• 1:24:15
  We've talked about this,
• 1:24:15
  like not knowing standards,
• 1:24:17
  not knowing even like maybe the broadcast,
• 1:24:19
  not knowing and judge just
• 1:24:22
  judging in general,
• 1:24:23
  playing a role in outcomes.
• 1:24:25
  I never like, man,
• 1:24:27
  that final event for individuals.
• 1:24:32
  It seemed kind of all over
• 1:24:34
  the place for me with the
• 1:24:35
  barbell standards.
• 1:24:38
  Like,
• 1:24:38
  it seemed like you were not allowed
• 1:24:41
  to drop the barbell at all.
• 1:24:43
  I mean, Emma Tall got hammered.
• 1:24:47
  And then later,
• 1:24:49
  he or different judges were
• 1:24:50
  okay to drop it from, like, their hip.
• 1:24:54
  I did not like that.
• 1:24:57
  I didn't notice that one.
• 1:24:59
  I noticed some pretty egregious ones.
• 1:25:03
  knew you weren't allowed to
• 1:25:04
  drop it and I did see some
• 1:25:06
  people drop exactly and
• 1:25:10
  that's huge in an event
• 1:25:13
  like that where you're
• 1:25:13
  trying to save your grip
• 1:25:14
  and jay birch says not
• 1:25:18
  enough judges to put people
• 1:25:20
  to run out yeah I could see
• 1:25:21
  that yeah along that line
• 1:25:29
  um I one of my hates is the
• 1:25:31
  air horn went off too early
• 1:25:32
  too many times yes that is
• 1:25:37
  a very simple simple task
• 1:25:41
  when the event's over not
• 1:25:44
  when the lady fails her
• 1:25:45
  handstand walk for the
• 1:25:47
  third time and is going to
• 1:25:48
  attempt a fourth you don't
• 1:25:50
  blow the air horn there man
• 1:25:52
  make her feel even worse I know
• 1:25:56
  but it happened.
• 1:25:57
  It happened a lot.
• 1:25:58
  Yeah.
• 1:26:01
  Yep.
• 1:26:01
  Usually one lane was still working.
• 1:26:03
  Yep.
• 1:26:07
  Trying to think of some stuff.
• 1:26:09
  My, my last thing that I've written down,
• 1:26:12
  I already did the teamwork
• 1:26:14
  being highlighted was the,
• 1:26:18
  I didn't love Travis and
• 1:26:21
  Jeff dropping out.
• 1:26:23
  Um,
• 1:26:24
  especially if it was not a sickness thing,
• 1:26:26
  like I had to get it.
• 1:26:26
  There seemed to be some,
• 1:26:28
  some sickness going around,
• 1:26:29
  but that did not seem to be
• 1:26:31
  the case for either of them.
• 1:26:32
  And I, I don't,
• 1:26:34
  I don't love that when
• 1:26:35
  there's this qualification
• 1:26:36
  process on the line and
• 1:26:37
  people trying to get into elites, like,
• 1:26:41
  man, it happens everywhere.
• 1:26:44
  And it, it, it sucks.
• 1:26:45
  Yeah.
• 1:26:46
  Every year you get athletes
• 1:26:47
  that say yes to water
• 1:26:49
  Palooza and then back out.
• 1:26:51
  It happens every year.
• 1:26:53
  They invite, let's say, like,
• 1:26:54
  thirty athletes from the qualifier,
• 1:26:56
  then the rest are... I mean,
• 1:26:58
  there was more females than the males,
• 1:26:59
  because the women had more
• 1:27:01
  heats than the men by, like,
• 1:27:02
  one heat every time, I think.
• 1:27:04
  Yeah.
• 1:27:04
  So it's just depending on
• 1:27:05
  how many athletes accept,
• 1:27:06
  because they'll invite
• 1:27:07
  everyone from the games.
• 1:27:10
  And I did hear someone make the statement,
• 1:27:13
  athletes want more opportunities,
• 1:27:15
  and then they have more opportunities,
• 1:27:16
  and they don't show up for
• 1:27:17
  the events they're signed up for.
• 1:27:19
  Yep.
• 1:27:21
  And,
• 1:27:21
  and I know not all athletes feel this
• 1:27:23
  way or all do this.
• 1:27:25
  And so to lump it all
• 1:27:27
  together is not right either,
• 1:27:29
  but I'm just saying,
• 1:27:32
  do you know if there was money for the,
• 1:27:35
  is there money in the RX division?
• 1:27:38
  I think maybe just the winner,
• 1:27:40
  just the winner.
• 1:27:41
  Yeah.
• 1:27:43
  I mean, cause I just like,
• 1:27:44
  I'm trying to think like
• 1:27:45
  somebody like Taiwan at RX, right.
• 1:27:48
  Ty Jenkins, um,
• 1:27:50
  Would that,
• 1:27:52
  could that have been a spot for
• 1:27:52
  him that Travis took?
• 1:27:54
  Would Ty have wanted to?
• 1:27:56
  I don't think so.
• 1:27:57
  I think regardless,
• 1:27:58
  let's say they give thirty
• 1:27:59
  for the online qualifier
• 1:28:00
  and then the field would be
• 1:28:02
  as big as what they accept
• 1:28:04
  in terms of the spots from
• 1:28:06
  the games athletes.
• 1:28:07
  Like, they can go all the way to forty,
• 1:28:08
  they can go to forty-five,
• 1:28:09
  they can go to fifty if
• 1:28:10
  twenty athletes from the games accept.
• 1:28:13
  So, I think that those,
• 1:28:15
  like the games athletes
• 1:28:16
  that get the invite,
• 1:28:20
  I mean, they still paid, I think,
• 1:28:21
  their registration.
• 1:28:23
  Yeah, fair.
• 1:28:27
  But I don't think it affects
• 1:28:28
  the field that qualified.
• 1:28:32
  Well, wasn't that an issue last year?
• 1:28:34
  They, like, backfilled somebody.
• 1:28:36
  Then they were like, no, you can't come.
• 1:28:37
  They backfilled the wrong person.
• 1:28:38
  Right.
• 1:28:38
  And they ended up making it right.
• 1:28:40
  But it makes me feel like if
• 1:28:42
  Ty was the first qualifier out that, like,
• 1:28:45
  was our ex.
• 1:28:47
  But what Carolyn is saying
• 1:28:48
  is Travis and Jeff didn't
• 1:28:50
  come from the qualifier.
• 1:28:52
  They came from the automatic invites.
• 1:28:55
  Yeah, I got you.
• 1:28:56
  So it would be backfilling a
• 1:28:58
  pool that's different than
• 1:28:59
  the other pool.
• 1:28:59
  Yeah.
• 1:29:02
  Well, Carolyn,
• 1:29:02
  do you have anything to add?
• 1:29:04
  Cause we're running out of
• 1:29:05
  time and last couple,
• 1:29:07
  I think mostly all covered.
• 1:29:10
  I have so many more.
• 1:29:13
  I don't know if you can see
• 1:29:14
  all my little things.
• 1:29:17
  We'll leave those for another day.
• 1:29:21
  Maybe I'll use them.
• 1:29:22
  Some of those for my lunch
• 1:29:23
  with the Clydesdales.
• 1:29:25
  I hit the big ones with you guys.
• 1:29:28
  Um,
• 1:29:28
  a couple of things I wanted to mention
• 1:29:30
  is water Palooza is moving
• 1:29:32
  to March next year.
• 1:29:33
  Oh yeah.
• 1:29:33
  I wanted to talk about that.
• 1:29:35
  Um, right around the time of the open.
• 1:29:39
  It's literally the last week of the open.
• 1:29:41
  Do we think that like the
• 1:29:43
  Thursday is going to be the open workout?
• 1:29:46
  Like that's going to be one
• 1:29:47
  of the workouts.
• 1:29:48
  They did that a few years ago at, uh,
• 1:29:52
  it a european event I forget
• 1:29:55
  it was the wall ball it was
• 1:29:56
  in twenty nineteen um
• 1:29:59
  nineteen point one nineteen
• 1:30:00
  point one was the fifteen
• 1:30:02
  minute of the wall ball and
• 1:30:04
  the row and people got to
• 1:30:06
  set up their rower and wall
• 1:30:07
  ball how they wanted
• 1:30:08
  because they didn't want
• 1:30:09
  the transitions being a
• 1:30:10
  factor and a disadvantage
• 1:30:12
  to the athletes that were
• 1:30:12
  competing because
• 1:30:15
  If you're going to be doing
• 1:30:15
  that event there,
• 1:30:16
  you want to make sure
• 1:30:17
  you're still in a good
• 1:30:18
  position where your
• 1:30:19
  transitions aren't a
• 1:30:20
  ridiculous amount where
• 1:30:21
  then you have to redo the
• 1:30:22
  workout on the Monday.
• 1:30:26
  When Arnold used to have a
• 1:30:27
  CrossFit competition,
• 1:30:29
  the first event of the
• 1:30:30
  competition was always
• 1:30:31
  whatever the open workout
• 1:30:32
  was that was announced that week.
• 1:30:34
  I think that's a great idea.
• 1:30:36
  But I think it needs to
• 1:30:38
  be... Then the issue becomes,
• 1:30:40
  does that qualifier then
• 1:30:42
  know the workouts early?
• 1:30:43
  Who knows the workouts early?
• 1:30:45
  Uh, can it get leaked even more?
• 1:30:47
  Yeah.
• 1:30:49
  Right.
• 1:30:49
  Like that, that's an issue.
• 1:30:50
  Like we already have leaks.
• 1:30:52
  Like, and then if,
• 1:30:53
  if that qualifier then gets
• 1:30:54
  the first event,
• 1:30:55
  how many people already
• 1:30:56
  know that workout?
• 1:30:57
  That is a good point.
• 1:30:58
  Cause that would totally happen.
• 1:30:59
  And that's totally happen.
• 1:31:02
  Yeah.
• 1:31:03
  Cause in a way I like the idea, like maybe,
• 1:31:06
  maybe it becomes one of the
• 1:31:08
  in-person qualifying events
• 1:31:10
  and the first event, you know, and it,
• 1:31:11
  and like,
• 1:31:13
  But yeah,
• 1:31:14
  I didn't even think about that
• 1:31:14
  because that's totally
• 1:31:15
  going to be a problem.
• 1:31:16
  Because then they got to set
• 1:31:18
  up the rest of their event
• 1:31:19
  so that they don't have two back-to-back,
• 1:31:20
  I don't know,
• 1:31:21
  rowing workouts with the same movement.
• 1:31:23
  So they would know the
• 1:31:24
  workout to program the rest.
• 1:31:27
  Yeah, so that would be an issue.
• 1:31:29
  And then just making sure
• 1:31:30
  that the athletes aren't in a...
• 1:31:32
  I mean, they're going to get,
• 1:31:33
  they're going to race
• 1:31:34
  faster because they have a
• 1:31:35
  bunch of people against them,
• 1:31:36
  but you don't want to put
• 1:31:36
  them at a disadvantage in
• 1:31:38
  terms of their setup.
• 1:31:39
  So that's, that's a big one.
• 1:31:40
  Like I wouldn't mind doing
• 1:31:42
  my open workout next to
• 1:31:43
  someone that's pushing me.
• 1:31:44
  That's my competitor,
• 1:31:46
  but I better be able to set
• 1:31:47
  up how I want.
• 1:31:48
  Yeah.
• 1:31:51
  And then you got to film it.
• 1:31:52
  If you have to do your video film,
• 1:31:53
  like where's everyone's cameras going?
• 1:31:55
  It's going on a public leaderboard.
• 1:31:57
  Like you got to be able to see everything.
• 1:31:58
  A clock.
• 1:31:59
  Hopefully there's one
• 1:32:02
  standard camera on the
• 1:32:03
  outside that counts for those people.
• 1:32:07
  That's not a good enough
• 1:32:07
  video for your submission.
• 1:32:10
  It should be fine.
• 1:32:11
  It should be, but you know what I mean.
• 1:32:12
  They have a judge on the floor.
• 1:32:14
  Qualified judge.
• 1:32:16
  I'm just saying.
• 1:32:17
  Jay Bird says Miami during
• 1:32:19
  spring break would be awesome.
• 1:32:21
  Not.
• 1:32:23
  I mean,
• 1:32:23
  that seemed to be a bit of an issue
• 1:32:25
  already, right?
• 1:32:26
  I heard quite a few athletes
• 1:32:28
  complain about
• 1:32:30
  not being able to sleep parties, bar,
• 1:32:33
  you know, music.
• 1:32:35
  Well, I heard the mayhem video.
• 1:32:38
  He said the check-in.
• 1:32:39
  Yeah.
• 1:32:39
  There are people like drunk
• 1:32:41
  and dancing and smoking hookahs.
• 1:32:43
  And it was just wild.
• 1:32:47
  But again, I wasn't there.
• 1:32:51
  I've heard it took some
• 1:32:52
  people six hours to park.
• 1:32:53
  God.
• 1:32:56
  Like that's definitely, if I would ever go,
• 1:32:59
  it would be an Uber ride.
• 1:33:00
  I'd like to know what the
• 1:33:01
  fan experience was like
• 1:33:02
  this year in terms of like
• 1:33:05
  the crowd I guess we didn't
• 1:33:06
  talk about it as much it
• 1:33:08
  looked maybe a little bit
• 1:33:09
  smaller than before but I
• 1:33:10
  don't know if it's just
• 1:33:11
  because it was a bigger um
• 1:33:12
  uh venue yeah but the times
• 1:33:18
  the stand looked pretty empty
• 1:33:20
  I'd like to know, like, just, you know,
• 1:33:21
  people,
• 1:33:22
  if people want to put in their comments,
• 1:33:23
  if they were there, how,
• 1:33:25
  how the fan experience was
• 1:33:26
  this time around,
• 1:33:27
  did they see the athletes
• 1:33:28
  as much as they did in the
• 1:33:29
  other venue walking around?
• 1:33:31
  Um,
• 1:33:32
  which would be interesting to see how
• 1:33:33
  it was.
• 1:33:36
  Yeah.
• 1:33:36
  Haley was there.
• 1:33:37
  So she gets back tonight.
• 1:33:39
  So I'm excited to see her
• 1:33:40
  tomorrow and get her perspective.
• 1:33:44
  Uh, in other news, uh,
• 1:33:45
  Noah Dean retired from floor announcing.
• 1:33:50
  If you don't know who that is,
• 1:33:51
  he usually had a cowboy hat on.
• 1:33:53
  He had the athletes sign that cowboy hat,
• 1:33:56
  and then he would auction it off, uh,
• 1:33:59
  or raffle it off for some
• 1:34:01
  charity at the end of the weekend.
• 1:34:02
  Um, and, but what opposed to was his last,
• 1:34:06
  last call.
• 1:34:06
  Wow.
• 1:34:09
  So he laid the microphone
• 1:34:10
  down in the sand and walked
• 1:34:12
  off in the sunset.
• 1:34:16
  And then we had reps ahead,
• 1:34:19
  which I think is getting
• 1:34:20
  better and better.
• 1:34:22
  It didn't have some of the cool, like,
• 1:34:24
  screens like it normally does.
• 1:34:27
  But I thought Alex Kazan was
• 1:34:33
  on fire for that thing and
• 1:34:36
  took out Haley in the second round.
• 1:34:38
  Mm-hmm.
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  And then Hopper and Pepper
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  went to three rounds and
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  Hopper got the win.
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  He did.
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  And I think because it
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  wasn't a box something over.
• 1:34:54
  Yeah.
• 1:34:56
  It was like, yes, that's refreshing.
• 1:35:00
  And I do like the concept.
• 1:35:02
  And now that we're getting
• 1:35:03
  bigger names doing it,
• 1:35:05
  I think it's more and more fun.
• 1:35:09
  Carolyn, would you do a reps ahead?
• 1:35:11
  I would love to do a reps ahead.
• 1:35:15
  Don't put double-enders,
• 1:35:15
  but I would love it.
• 1:35:18
  They like their double-enders.
• 1:35:21
  Give me a little deadlift
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  cycling and some burpees and stuff.
• 1:35:25
  I'll be doing it.
• 1:35:27
  Poor Khan got smoked in the undercard.
• 1:35:30
  Yeah.
• 1:35:32
  If you don't have the right strategy,
• 1:35:33
  if you pushed a little bit
• 1:35:34
  too much at the wrong time,
• 1:35:35
  you just go over that red line.
• 1:35:38
  Once you're there,
• 1:35:38
  it's just survival mode.
• 1:35:41
  I think Khan was a last
• 1:35:42
  minute sub as well.
• 1:35:45
  And I think his strategy was,
• 1:35:48
  I'm going to go as hard as
• 1:35:49
  I can and try to win early
• 1:35:50
  because I'm not winning late.
• 1:35:52
  Right.
• 1:35:54
  And he didn't win early.
• 1:36:00
  um lynn says reps ahead also
• 1:36:03
  allowed the community to
• 1:36:04
  try and participate which
• 1:36:05
  was cool that's awesome
• 1:36:06
  that's really cool jay
• 1:36:10
  birch wants to know how
• 1:36:11
  about some ninja box jumps
• 1:36:12
  in your reps ahead let's do
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  it I want them at norcal
• 1:36:18
  though there you go norcal
• 1:36:25
  I I tagged them
• 1:36:32
  I'll take that reps ahead.
• 1:36:34
  Uh, train, train to live.
• 1:36:37
  Uh, Carolyn's reps ahead, deadlifts,
• 1:36:38
  burpees, and bar muscle ups.
• 1:36:40
  I'll do that.
• 1:36:44
  Jamie, what would your reps ahead be?
• 1:36:45
  A run.
• 1:36:51
  Yeah.
• 1:36:52
  I mean,
• 1:36:52
  it would have total bar in it for sure.
• 1:36:55
  Hmm.
• 1:36:56
  Um, probably burpees,
• 1:37:00
  maybe bar muscle ups.
• 1:37:04
  A white middle, mid-range power clean.
• 1:37:06
  There you go.
• 1:37:12
  All right.
• 1:37:12
  Mine would be overhead squats.
• 1:37:14
  Ew.
• 1:37:15
  No.
• 1:37:16
  Random.
• 1:37:17
  That's the first movement you think of?
• 1:37:21
  I can overhead squat all day long.
• 1:37:23
  Yeah.
• 1:37:24
  My favorite thing in the world.
• 1:37:28
  Yeah.
• 1:37:29
  I loved that, by the way.
• 1:37:31
  On the team,
• 1:37:31
  that overhead squat relay thing.
• 1:37:33
  Yeah.
• 1:37:34
  I thought there was a lot of
• 1:37:36
  strategy with that.
• 1:37:37
  Unless you were just that one, that car,
• 1:37:41
  any Spiegel team was very strong,
• 1:37:43
  but those little, uh,
• 1:37:44
  those young girls were good.
• 1:37:46
  Little McDonnell comment.
• 1:37:49
  Yeah.
• 1:37:49
  Coming in hotter.
• 1:37:51
  Yeah.
• 1:37:51
  They're good too.
• 1:37:52
  Yeah.
• 1:37:56
  Love overhead squats.
• 1:37:57
  Interesting.
• 1:38:01
  Yeah, overhead squats, bike,
• 1:38:04
  and... I figured a bike for you.
• 1:38:09
  I don't know.
• 1:38:11
  The rig is just deadly to me.
• 1:38:17
  So, we'll figure it out.
• 1:38:22
  So, with that, guys, we have gone long.
• 1:38:25
  Yeah.
• 1:38:26
  With the love and hate,
• 1:38:27
  I should have known...
• 1:38:29
  that the love and the hate
• 1:38:30
  would have an outpouring of emotion.
• 1:38:33
  But we went a little long with that one.
• 1:38:35
  But we're going to try that
• 1:38:36
  kind of moving forward.
• 1:38:38
  And hopefully we can get it
• 1:38:39
  refined to quicker debates
• 1:38:42
  or maybe my list a lot shorter.
• 1:38:46
  But with that, guys,
• 1:38:47
  thank you so much for being
• 1:38:48
  here this week.
• 1:38:49
  We'll be here for lunch with
• 1:38:50
  the Clydesdale all the rest of the week.
• 1:38:52
  You guys are awesome.
• 1:38:53
  But man,
• 1:38:54
  we got to get back to work tomorrow.
• 1:38:56
  With that, so glad...